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Geresh (׳ in Hebrew: גֶּרֶשׁ [1] or גֵּרֶשׁ [2] [3], or medieval [ˈɡeːɾeːʃ]) is a sign in Hebrew writing.It has two meanings. An apostrophe-like sign (also known colloquially as a chupchik) [4] placed after a letter:
The gershayim ״ , is a Hebrew symbol indicating that a sequence of characters is an acronym, and is placed before the last character of the word. Owing to a Hebrew keyboard's having neither a geresh nor gershayim, they are usually replaced online with, respectively, the visually similar apostrophe ' and quotation mark " .
Latin Small Letter N preceded by apostrophe [2] 0265 European Latin: U+014A Ŋ 330 Ŋ Latin Capital Letter Eng: 0266 U+014B ŋ 331 ŋ Latin Small Letter Eng 0267 U+014C Ō 332 Ō Latin Capital Letter O with macron 0268 U+014D ō 333 ō Latin Small Letter O with macron 0269 U+014E Ŏ 334 &Obreve; Latin Capital Letter O with breve ...
Moreover, the apostrophe is also used before a two-digit year number (to indicate the omission of the first two digits): ' 87 (usually used for 1987). In Swahili, an apostrophe after ng shows that there is no sound of /ɡ/ after the /ŋ/ sound; that is, that the ng is pronounced as in English singer, not as in English finger.
It is useful because the number can be copied and pasted into calculators (including a web browser's omnibox) and parsed by the computer as-is (i.e., without the user manually purging the extraneous characters). For example, Wikipedia content can display numbers this way, as in the following examples: 149 597 870 700 metres is 1 astronomical unit
Number sign: Numero sign. Also known as "octothorpe", "hash" and "hashtag sign" Pound sign № Numero sign: Number sign: Obelus: Division sign, Dagger, Commercial minus, Index ( ) Parenthesis: Bracket, Angle bracket % Percent sign: Per mille (per 1,000), Basis point (per 10,000) ‰ Per mille: Percent, Basis point. Period: The end of a sentence ...
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The prime symbol ′ is commonly used to represent feet (ft), and the double prime ″ is used to represent inches (in). [2] The triple prime ‴, as used in watchmaking, represents a ligne (1 ⁄ 12 of a "French" inch, or pouce, about 2.26 millimetres or 0.089 inches).