Reverse Solidus \

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U+005C
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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.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский;

Synonyms

backslash.

Unicode Name Reverse Solidus
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Entity \
Unicode Block Basic Latin
Unicode Subblock ASCII punctuation and symbols
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Alt Code
Version 1.1
Block Basic Latin
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 005C
Simple case change 005C
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
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
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