Reverse Solidus \
Symbol Meaning
Reverse Solidus or backslash appeared in order to make Boolean algebra symbols \/ and /\. Nowadays it is used to denote set difference (for which there is a separate Unicode symbol ), integer division in BASIC, directory separator in DOS and Windows, special character escape sequence in C-like languages and Unix shell, command formatting in TeX and Doxygen.
The symbol “Reverse Solidus” is included in the “ASCII punctuation and symbols” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
backslash.
| Unicode Name | Reverse Solidus |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | \ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Basic Latin |
| Unicode Subblock | ASCII punctuation and symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 005C |
| Simple case change | 005C |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | 5C | 92 | 92 | 01011100 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 5C | 0 92 | 92 | 00000000 01011100 |
| UTF-16LE | 5C 00 | 92 0 | 23552 | 01011100 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 5C | 0 0 0 92 | 92 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 01011100 |
| UTF-32LE | 5C 00 00 00 | 92 0 0 0 | 1543503872 | 01011100 00000000 00000000 00000000 |
Related Characters
Reverse Solidus is part of collections: