Modifier letter prime

For the numeral sign ʹ, see Greek numerals.

The modifier letter prime (ʹ) is a spacing glyph.

Usage

It is used in the romanization of Cyrillic for palatalized consonants (particularly for the letter ь) and in the orthography of the Skolt Sami for suprasegmental palatalization.

Computing codes

Its Unicode name is simply: Modifier Letter Prime

See also

• single apostrophe U+02BC ʼ MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE (HTML ʼ).
• single vertical line U+02C8 ˈ MODIFIER LETTER VERTICAL LINE (HTML ˈ).
• Similar symbol U+2032 ′ PRIME (HTML ′⧼dot-separator⧽ ′)

References

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