`

See also: ◌̀ [U+0300 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT], ˋ◌, ◌ˋ [U+02CB MODIFIER LETTER GRAVE ACCENT], and ՝ [U+055D ARMENIAN COMMA]

` U+0060, `
GRAVE ACCENT
← _
[U+005F] 		Basic Latin a →
[U+0061]
` U+1FEF, `
GREEK VARIA
[unassigned: U+1FF0–U+1FF1]
← ΅
[U+1FEE] 		Greek Extended ῲ →
[U+1FF2]
｀ U+FF40, ｀
FULLWIDTH GRAVE ACCENT
← ＿
[U+FF3F] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ａ →
[U+FF41]

Translingual

Alternative forms

Diacritical mark

`

  1. (formal) A grave accent or baria as a spacing character.

Usage notes

The use of spacing character diacritics is generally archaic outside of pedagogical contexts.

The Unicode code point U+1FEF GREEK VARIA is canonically equivalent to U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT, while U+FF40 FULLWIDTH GRAVE ACCENT is a fullwidth character for use in East Asian typography.

Not to be confused with an acute accent: ´.

Punctuation mark

`

  1. (computing) A backquote or backtick, which, like a quotation mark, encloses text.
  2. (nonstandard, Internet) An apostrophe (')

Further reading
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