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

` - Translingual

Punctuation mark

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

Usage notes

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

The use of these spacing characters is generally archaic outside of pedagogical contexts. See U+02CB MODIFIER LETTER GRAVE ACCENT ⟨ˋ⟩ for the tone mark.

Compare acute accent: ´.

Punctuation mark

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