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Technical information
| Symbol | / | |
| Name | Solidus | |
| Unicode number | U+002F | |
| Category | ASCII Table2. ASCII punctuation and symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character /, or U+002F, is known as "Solidus" but more commonly referred to as a forward slash. It belongs to the "Basic Latin" block and is categorized under the "Punctuation, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The solidus has numerous uses in computing and text, including its use to indicate a division in mathematics, a path in a URL, a line break in poetry, and to separate different parts of a date (e.g., day/month/year). The forward slash can also be used as a substitute for the word "or" or to separate items in a list. This character should not be confused with the backslash (\\), which has different uses, especially in computing. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | / | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | / | |
| HTML Entity (named) | / | |
| URL Escape Code | %2F | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x2F | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00101111 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x002F | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000002F |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u002F" | |
| CSS Code | \002F | |
| JavaScript | "\u002F" | |
| Perl | \x{002F} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u002F" | |
| Python 3 | \u002F | |
| Ruby | \u{002F} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this / in sentence and in bold like this / and in italic like this /.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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select
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>/</span>
span {
content: "\002F";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana