' (disambiguation)

The Template:Char character is represented by 39 in ASCII and Template:Unichar in Unicode. It is used as:

• Apostrophe (as straight version of the Template:Char character), a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark
• Single quotation mark (as straight version of the Template:Char and Template:Char characters)

Informal use

Being supplied as standard on many keyboard layouts, it is often used in informal contexts to replace other similar looking characters that include:

Diacritical marks

• Acute accent (Template:Unichar), a diacritic used in many modern written languages
  • The ASCII symbol Template:Unichar is not used as a diacritic.
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• Aleph (Template:Unichar2), is the first letter of the Semitic abjads
• Apex (Template:Unichar), a diacritic used to indicate a long vowel in Latin
• Dakuten, japanese diacritic
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• Geresh (Template:Unichar2), a sign in Hebrew writing
• Smooth breathing or Template:Lang (Template:Unichar), a diacritical mark used in polytonic orthography
• Tonos (Template:Unichar), single diacritic that indicates stress in monotonic orthography for Modern Greek
• Keraia (diacritic) (Template:Unichar) a symbol used in Greek numerals

Modifier letter punctuation

• Modifier letter apostrophe (Template:Char), a glyph used primarily to represent various glottal sounds.
• Modifier letter left half ring (Template:Char), a character used to transliterate the letter ayin, representing the sound ʕ
• Modifier letter right half ring (Template:Char)
• Modifier letter turned comma (Template:Char)

Other uses as accents, pronunciation, or stress

• [[Template:OkinaOkina]] (Template:Char), commonly representing a phonemic glottal stop in various Polynesian languages
• Ejective consonant (Template:Char), used in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Greek diacritics (Template:Char)(Template:Char)(Template:Char)(Template:Char), marks added to letters in Greek (particularly Ancient Greek) sometimes in combination (eg. Template:Char or Template:Char)
• Saltillo (linguistics) (Template:Char or Template:Char), a glottal stop consonant, ʔ
• Stress (linguistics) (Template:Char), relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word

Units of measure

• Prime (symbol) (Template:Char), used to designate units and for other purposes in mathematics, the sciences, linguistics, and music
  • Foot (unit), a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement
  • Minute, a unit of time
  • Minute of arc, a unit of arc

See also

• Apostrophe (disambiguation)
• Comma, a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages, above as well as below the baseline
  • Inverted comma, the name used in traditional British typography for the single quotation mark

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