Unicode Character 'GRAVE ACCENT' (U+0060)

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GRAVE ACCENT

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GRAVE ACCENT

Unicode Data
Name GRAVE ACCENT
Block Basic Latin
Category Symbol, Modifier [Sk]
Script Common (Zyyy)
Combine 0
BIDI Other Neutrals [ON]
Old name SPACING GRAVE
Index entries ACCENT, GRAVE
accent, spacing grave
GRAVE ACCENT
grave accent, spacing
spacing grave accent
Comments Formal Alias: backtick, backquote
this is a spacing character
in some technical contexts functions as opening quote, paired with apostrophe
See Also acute accent U+00B4
modifier letter grave accent U+02CB
combining grave accent U+0300
greek varia U+1FEF
left single quotation mark U+2018
reversed prime U+2035
Version Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Encodings
HTML Entity (decimal) `
HTML Entity (hex) `
HTML Entity (named) `: `
`: `
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +0060
Alt 096
Alt 96
UTF-8 (hex) 0x60 (60)
UTF-8 (binary) 01100000
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0060 (0060)
UTF-16 (decimal) 96
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000060 (0060)
UTF-32 (decimal) 96
C/C++/Java source code "\u0060"
Python source code u"\u0060"
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Java Data
string.toUpperCase() `
string.toLowerCase() `
Character.UnicodeBlock BASIC_LATIN
Character.charCount() 1
Character.getDirectionality() DIRECTIONALITY_OTHER_NEUTRALS [13]
Character.getNumericValue() -1
Character.getType() 27
Character.isDefined() Yes
Character.isDigit() No
Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() No
Character.isISOControl() No
Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() No
Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() No
Character.isLetter() No
Character.isLetterOrDigit() No
Character.isLowerCase() No
Character.isMirrored() No
Character.isSpaceChar() No
Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() No
Character.isTitleCase() No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() No
Character.isUpperCase() No
Character.isValidCodePoint() Yes
Character.isWhitespace() No