This code point first appeared in version 1.1 of the Unicode® Standard and belongs to the "General Punctuation" block which goes from 0x2000 to 0x206F.
You can safely add this character in your html code with the entity: ‘
You can use the u+2018 copy pc button below.
Easy u+2018 copy paste:
Unicode meta-data
The following table show specific meta-data that is known about this character.The u+2018 name is left single quotation mark emoji.
field | value |
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Codepoint (hex) | 2018, u2018 |
Character age | Unicode 1.1 |
Legacy name (Unicode 1.0) | SINGLE TURNED COMMA QUOTATION MARK |
Official name (Unicode 15.0) | LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK |
resolved name | left single quotation mark |
block | General Punctuation (Punctuation) |
common typos | u+0218, u+1208 |
There are alternative spelling that can be found in the wild for the unicode character 2018 like u 2018, (u+2018) or u +2018. You can also find u-2018, u*2018, un+2018, u2018, u=2018 or c+2018. You can also spell it with u 2018 unicode, u plus 2018, uncode 2018 or unicode + 2018.
Its bidirectional class is "ON":Other Neutrals (All other characters, including OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER)
Glyphs and symbols in your browser
The following unicode chart presents different versions of the glyph corresponding to the unicode characters u+2018 that are available on your computer.
In order to type this character easily, you may want to download and install a unicode General Punctuation keyboard.
A sample of fonts are used below to display whether the character has a glyph in this font or not.
Encodings (Unicode characters converter)
The following character table converter for +u2018 allows you to see the value of the character in different encodings
encoding | hexadecimal | decimal | binary |
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UTF-8 | E2 80 98 | 14844056 | 11100010 10000000 10011000 |
UCS2 | 18 20 | 6176 | 00011000 00100000 |
UTF-16LE | 18 20 | 6176 | 00011000 00100000 |
UTF-16BE | 20 18 | 8216 | 00100000 00011000 |
UTF7 | 2B 49 42 67 2D | 185912682285 | 00101011 01001001 01000010 01100111 00101101 |
UTF7-IMAP | 26 49 42 67 2D | 164437845805 | 00100110 01001001 01000010 01100111 00101101 |