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According to the prescriptive and citation-free wikipedia page, it should only look like a single left quote, and any other rendering is wrong. However, in some places, like on signs in the ʻIolani Palace museum, it's rendered as a backquote, and on some street signs it's an acute accent:

On other street signs, it's a straight apostrophe:

And once with a double left quote:

This article has a lot of detail on the different ways the ʻokina is rendered.
In other news, I spotted this awesome multilingual sign in a restaurant (click for bigger image).

Can you guess them all? Here's the answer.
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