U+005C— REVERSE SOLIDUS (BACKSLASH)
Backslash / Reverse Solidus (\) used as an escape character in strings, regular expressions, and Windows file paths.
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REVERSE SOLIDUS (BACKSLASH)
U+005C • Decimal 92
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1-Click Multi-Language Developer Copy Palette (13 Formats)
Instant Clipboard ExportCharacter Glyph (Raw)
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Unicode Codepoint (Hex)
U+005C
Decimal Integer
92
HTML Entity (Decimal)
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HTML Entity (Hex)
\
JavaScript ES6 / JSON
\u005C
Java / C# (Surrogates)
\u005C
Python 3
\u005C
C / C++ / Rust
\u005C
CSS Content
\00005C
URL Percent-Encoded
%5C
Raw UTF-8 Bytes (Hex)
0x5C
Base64 Stream
XA==
Unicode Character Database (UCD) Technical Specifications
Unicode 16.0 Standard| Unicode Plane | Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) • U+0000..U+FFFF |
| Unicode Block | Basic Latin (U+0..U+7F) |
| General Category | Lo — Other Letter / Symbol |
| Bidirectional Class | L (Left-to-Right) • Flow: LTR |
| Unicode Version Introduced | Unicode 1.1 (1993) |
| UTF-8 Byte Stream | 0x5C (1 Byte) |
| UTF-16 Code Units | 0x005C |
| UTF-32 Hexadecimal | 0x0000005C |
Quick Character Summary
Glyph\
Hex CodepointU+005C
Decimal ID92
ScriptLatin
DirectionLTR (L)
Introduced InUnicode 1.1 (1993)
Device & Font Support
99.9% SupportApple (iOS / macOS)iOS 1.0+
Google (Android / Chrome)Android 1.0+
Microsoft (Windows)Windows 95+
ASCII core character supported on virtually every digital display and operating system in existence.