Left single quotation mark

Opens a nested quotation inside double quotes in American style, or a primary quotation in British style. Pairs with the right single quotation mark (’). Distinct from the straight apostrophe (') and from the backtick (`), two frequent lookalike substitutes in plain-text writing.

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  • Symbol
  • UnicodeU+2018
  • HTML entity‘
  • CSS content\2018
  • JavaScript\u2018
  • URL encoded%E2%80%98
  • Windows Alt codeAlt+0145

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