# '

| ' | U+0027, &#39; APOSTROPHE |
| ← & [U+0026] | Basic Latin | ( → [U+0028] |
| ＇ | U+FF07, &#65287; FULLWIDTH APOSTROPHE |
| ← ＆ [U+FF06] | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | （ → [U+FF08] |

## Translingual
### Punctuation mark

* An ASCII substitute for any of multiple characters with a similar shape:
** ’ (apostrophe)
** ‛ (leading apostrophe)
** A quotation mark, in some languages: see ' '.
** (IPA) ˈ (primary stress)
** ׳ (Hebrew geresh)
** ꞌ (saltillo)

#### Related terms

* (diacritical mark): ", :

### Diacritical mark

* An ASCII substitute for any of multiple characters with a similar shape.
** ׳ (Hebrew geresh)
** (IPA) ʼ (ejective consonant)
** Used after a letter as a nonstandard representation of an acute or grave accent, when technical limitations prevent the use of one.
*** For quotations using this term, see Citations:cafe'.
*** For quotations using this term, see Citations:caffe'.

### Letter

* An ASCII substitute for a letter representing a glottal stop, or glottalization:
** ' or ʼ (compare ˀ, ˁ, ʿ, and ʾ)
** ꞌ (the saltillo, used in some languages of Mexico and Guatemala to represent either a glottal stop or a fricative sound).
** ʻ (the Hawaiian okina).

#### See also

* (Latin-script letters) A a (Ā ā), E e (Ē ē), I i (Ī ī), O o (Ō ō), U u (Ū ū), H h, K k, L l, M m, N n, P p, W w, ʻ

### Symbol

* Replaces one or more letters which have been removed from a written word, often but not always because they are not being pronounced.
    English: don't, y' , o'er (over), fo'c's'le (forecastle), tho' (though), cont'd (continued); German: Leut' (Leute)
** Replaces letter(s) when two or more words are contracted into one word.
    English: I'm (I am), wouldn't've (would not have); French: qu’il (que il), à c’t’heure (à cette heure); German: gibt's (gibt es), auf'm (auf dem)
* Similarly replaces one or more numbers which have been removed.
    '95 (1995)
* An ASCII substitute for the foot (length unit symbol).
* (mathematics) An ASCII substitute for ′ (prime symbol).
* (time, angles) An ASCII substitute for the symbol representing the minute, placed after the value of the seconds in a term to indicate minutes count.
* (grammar) Alternative form of ¯
* (music) A pointing mark in Anglican chant, which marks a place in the text where a barline occurs in the chant.
    Synonym: |
    Coordinate terms: :, *, ⋅, —, ‖, †

#### Coordinate terms

* (time): "
* (angles): ", °

#### See also

Punctuation
* apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
* curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
* square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
* colon ( : )
* comma ( , )
* dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
* ellipsis ( … )
* exclamation mark ( ! )
* fraction slash ( ⁄ )
* guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
* hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
* interpunct ( · )
* interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
* brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
* full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
* question mark ( ? )
* quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
* quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
* semicolon ( ; )
* slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
* space ( ] [ )
* Afrikaans: “ ” · ‘ ’ · „ ” · ‚ ’
* Albanian: „ “ · ‘ ’
* Arabic: « » · ( ) · “ ”
* Armenian: « »
* Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: « » · “ ”
* Azerbaijani: « » · ‹ › · “ ” · " " · ‘ ’ · ' '
* Basque: « » · ‹ › · “ ” · ‘ ’
* Belarusian: « » · “ ”
* Bulgarian: „ “ · ’ ’ · ‘ ’ · « » · ’ ’ · ‘ ’ · —
* Catalan: « » · “ ” · ‘ ’, —
* Chinese: “ ” · ‘ ’ · 「 」 · 『 』
* Czech: „ “ · ‚ ‘ · » « · › ‹
* Danish: » « · „ “ · › ‹ · ‚ ’ · ” ” · ’ ’
* Dutch: ‘ ’ · “ ” · ‚ ’ · „ ”
* English U.K.: ' ' · " " · ‘ ’ · “ ”
* English U.S.: " " · ' ' · “ ” · ‘ ’
* Esperanto: (depends on country of publication)
* Estonian: „ “ · « »
* Filipino: “ ” · ‘ ’
* Finnish: ” ” · ’ ’ · » »
* French: « » · ‹ › · “ ” · —
* Georgian: „ “ · ‚ ‘ · » « · › ‹
* German: „ “ · ‚ ‘ ; » « · › ‹ ; regional: « » · ‹ ›
* Greek: « » · “ ” · ‟ ” · —
* Hungarian: „ ” · » « · —
* Icelandic: „ “ · ‚ ‘
* Indonesian: “ ” · ‘ ’
* Interlingua: (depends on country of publication)
* Irish: “ ” · ‘ ’
* Italian: « » · ‹ › · “ ” · ‘ ’
* Japanese: 「 」 · 『 』 · 〝 〟 · 〝 〞
* Korean: “ ” · ‘ ’ · 『 』 · 「 」
* Latvian: « » · „ “
* Lithuanian: « » · „ “
* Lower Sorbian: „ “ · ‚ ‘
* Macedonian: „ “ · ’ ‘ · ‘ ’
* Northern Kurdish: « »
* Norwegian: « » · „ “ · ‘ ’ · ‚ ‘
* Persian: « »
* Polish: „ ” · « » · » « · —
* Portuguese: “ ” · ‘ ’ · « » · —
* Romanian: „ ” · « » · —
* Russian: « » · „ “ · „ ” · —
* Serbo-Croatian: „ ” · ” ” · ‘ ’ · ’ ’ · „ “ · » «
* Slovak: „ “ · ‚ ‘ · » « · › ‹
* Slovene: „ “ · ‚ ‘ · » « · › ‹
* Spanish: « » · “ ” · ‘ ’ · —
* Swedish: ” ” · ’ ’ · » » · » « · —
* Thai: “ ” · ‘ ’
* Turkish: “ ” · ‘ ’ · « » · › ‹ · —
* Ukrainian: « » · „ ” · ‚ ‘
* Vietnamese: “ ” · —
* Welsh: ‘ ’ · “ ”
* Curved double quotation marks: “ ” · ” ” · „ ” · „ “ · ‟ ”
* Curved single quotation marks: ‘ ’ · ’ ’ · ‚ ’ · ‚ ‘ · ’ ‘ · ‛ ’
* Straight double quotation marks: " "
* Straight single quotation marks: ' '
* Guillemets: « » · » « · » »
* Single guillemets: ‹ › · › ‹
* Corner brackets: 「 」 · 『 』
* Angle brackets: 《 》 · 〈 〉
* Prime quotation marks: 〝 〟 · 〝 〞
* Curved double quotation marks: “ · ” · „ · ‟
* Curved single quotation marks and apostrophes: ‘ · ’ · ‚ · ‛
* Straight double quotation mark: "
* Straight single quotation mark and apostrophe: '
* Prime quotation marks: 〝 · 〞 · 〟
* Guillemets: « · »
* Single guillemets: ‹ · ›
* Corner brackets: 「 · 」 · 『 · 』
* Quotation dashes: — (em dash) · ― (horizontal bar) · – (en dash)

## English
### Symbol

* See ’

### Particle

* See -'.

## Chinese
### Punctuation mark

* sed to mark an initial a, e, or o in a multisyllabic Pinyin word, to prevent confusion (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào))
    普洱 ― pǔ'ěr ― pu'er tea (named for a city in Yunnan, China)

## Esperanto
### Punctuation mark

* (chiefly poetic) Used to indicate omission of the a in la to form l'.
* (chiefly poetic) Used to indicate omission of the final -o of nominative singular nouns.
** 1891, L. L. Zamenhof, translated by L. L. Zamenhof, La Espero [The Hope]:Ne al glavo sangon soifanta / ĝi la homan tiras familion: / al la mond' eterne militanta / ĝi promesas sanktan harmonion.Not to a bloodthirsty sword / does it draw the human family: / to the eternally fighting world / it promises sacred harmony.

#### Usage notes

* Never pronounced.
* When the final -o is replaced by an apostrophe, the word is stressed in the syllable that was the penultimate before the omission, thus the new final syllable.
* Almost exclusively used in poetry and proverbs. In ordinary language it is barely used, and many Esperantists might even not understand it.
* The apostrophe itself is sometime omitted by some poets, but this is considered non-standard and may create confusion.

## Finnish
### Symbol

* Indicates a syllable break in words, mostly as a result of consonant gradation.
    liu’uttaa
* Used to separate the inflectional ending from unadapted borrowings, chiefly when the borrowing ends in a silent consonant.
* Used to signify omission or dropping of sounds.
** Representing apocope found in poetic text.
    sua palvon ain’ ― I worship you always
** (dated) Representing sounds elided as part of contractions.
    yht’äkkiä ― suddenly
** In some linguistic and grammatical sources, equivalent to ˣ.

#### Usage notes

* More properly encoded as ’ (U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK), but ' (U+0027 APOSTROPHE) is ubiquitous in computing for technical reasons and also used on Wiktionary for normalization purposes.
* Called heittomerkki.
* When used to represent a syllable break, the apostrophe is omitted if the word is hyphenated at the syllable break (liu’uttaa → liu-uttaa). It is however included in the other two cases.

## Italian
### Symbol

* used to indicate truncation
    un poco → un po'a little, a bit
    a modo di → a mo' dilike, as
* (nonstandard, proscribed) used after a word-final vowel, as a substitute for a grave or acute accent, especially in upper-case text
    perche' (standard: perché)why; because
    c'e' (standard: c'è)there is

#### Usage notes

* The symbol is called apostrofo.

## Lithuanian
### Punctuation mark

* (grammar) Alternative form of ’

## Polish
### Punctuation mark

* put before the declension suffix of a foreign name, if the preceding letter is silent
    Harry'ego /xaˈrɛ.ɡɔ/ — genitive case of Harry
    Georges'em /ˈʐɔr.ʐɛm/ — instrumental case of Georges

### Further reading

* ' in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Scots
### Symbol

* Replaces one or more letters which have been removed from a word.
    eneu' (eneuch, "enough"), lea' (leave, "leave")
* The apologetic apostrophe: inserted into a Scots word to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word.
    de'il (deil, "devil")