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U+005CREVERSE 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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Instant Clipboard Export
Character Glyph (Raw)
\
Unicode Codepoint (Hex)
U+005C
Decimal Integer
92
HTML Entity (Decimal)
\
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 PlanePlane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) • U+0000..U+FFFF
Unicode BlockBasic Latin (U+0..U+7F)
General CategoryLo Other Letter / Symbol
Bidirectional ClassL (Left-to-Right) • Flow: LTR
Unicode Version IntroducedUnicode 1.1 (1993)
UTF-8 Byte Stream0x5C (1 Byte)
UTF-16 Code Units0x005C
UTF-32 Hexadecimal0x0000005C

Quick Character Summary

Glyph\
Hex CodepointU+005C
Decimal ID92
ScriptLatin
DirectionLTR (L)
Introduced InUnicode 1.1 (1993)

Device & Font Support

99.9% Support
Apple (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.