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U+005C · REVERSE SOLIDUS

Reverse Solidus

  • CodepointU+005C
  • NameREVERSE SOLIDUS
  • Decimal92
  • BlockBasic Latin (U+0000–U+007F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthNa — Narrow
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+005C (\) is REVERSE SOLIDUS, a punctuation mark in the Basic Latin block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-85C1 byte
UTF-16005C1 code unit
UTF-320000005C4 bytes
HTML named\named character reference
HTML decimal\
HTML hex\
CSS\5Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u005C
JSON\u005C
Python\u005C
Python\N{REVERSE SOLIDUS}by name
Java / C#\u005C
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{5C}
Go\u005C
Ruby\u005C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(92)
URL-encoded%5Cpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+2216∖Set Minus U+27CD⟍Mathematical Falling Diagonal U+29F5⧵Reverse Solidus Operator U+29F9⧹Big Reverse Solidus U+FE68﹨Small Reverse Solidus U+FF3C＼Fullwidth Reverse Solidus U+2F02⼂Kangxi Radical Dot U+31D4㇔CJK Stroke D U+4E36丶CJK Unified Ideograph-4e36 U+1D20F𝈏Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-16 U+1D23B𝈻Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-48
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Characters built on \

U+FE68﹨Small Reverse Solidus U+FF3C＼Fullwidth Reverse Solidus
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Nearby in Basic Latin

All in block →
U+0056VLatin Capital Letter V U+0057WLatin Capital Letter W U+0058XLatin Capital Letter X U+0059YLatin Capital Letter Y U+005AZLatin Capital Letter Z U+005B[Left Square Bracket U+005D]Right Square Bracket U+005E^Circumflex Accent U+005F_Low Line U+0060`Grave Accent U+0061aLatin Small Letter A U+0062bLatin Small Letter B