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U+02BC

MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE

Lm — Modifier Letter
Common
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
700

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 CA BC 202 188 2
UTF-16 LE BC 02 188 2 2
UTF-16 BE 02 BC 2 188 2
UTF-32 LE BC 02 00 00 188 2 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 02 BC 0 0 2 188 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP not supported
GBK not supported
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
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\2BC
\u02BC
%CA%BC
\u02bc
700

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
CA
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Byte 2
1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0
BC
UTF-8: CA BC · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+02BC

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right

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