# ʼ U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE

## Properties

- General category: [Modifier Letter](/unicode/categories/modifier-letter.md) (Lm)
- Script: [Common](/unicode/scripts/common.md) (Common)

## Annotations

- = apostrophe
- • glottal stop, glottalization, ejective
- • many languages use this as a letter of their alphabets
- • used as a tone marker in Bodo and Dogri
- • indicates vowel elongation, or various truncations and ellipsis in Maithili
- • used as a modifier letter in the Lisu script
- • 2019 is the preferred character for a punctuation apostrophe
- → [U+0027 ' APOSTROPHE](/unicode/U+0027.md)
- → [U+0313 ◌̓ COMBINING COMMA ABOVE](/unicode/U+0313.md)
- → [U+0315 ◌̕ COMBINING COMMA ABOVE RIGHT](/unicode/U+0315.md)
- → [U+055A ՚ ARMENIAN APOSTROPHE](/unicode/U+055A.md)
- → [U+07F4 ߴ NKO HIGH TONE APOSTROPHE](/unicode/U+07F4.md)
- → [U+1FBF ᾿ GREEK PSILI](/unicode/U+1FBF.md)
- → [U+2019 ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK](/unicode/U+2019.md)