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Technical information
| Symbol | \ | |
| Name | Reverse solidus | |
| Unicode number | U+005C | |
| Category | ASCII Table6. ASCII punctuation and symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character \, or U+005C, is known as the "Reverse Solidus", more commonly referred to as a "Backslash". It is part of the "Basic Latin" block, which is the standard ASCII set of characters used in English and many other languages. This character falls under the "Punctuation, Other" category. Visually, it is represented as a slash that leans backwards, from upper-right to lower-left. The Backslash has various uses, particularly in computing contexts. For example, it is used as an escape character in many programming languages, and in file paths for certain operating systems, notably Microsoft Windows. As with other characters, the specific usage of the Reverse Solidus can depend on its context. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | \ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | \ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | \ | |
| URL Escape Code | %5C | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x5C | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 01011100 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x005C | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000005C |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u005C" | |
| CSS Code | \005C | |
| JavaScript | "\u005C" | |
| Perl | \x{005C} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u005C" | |
| Python 3 | \u005C | |
| Ruby | \u{005C} |
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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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>\</span>
span {
content: "\005C";
}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