See also: [U+2216 SET MINUS], [U+4E36 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E36], [U+20A9 WON SIGN], and ¥ [U+00A5 YEN SIGN]

\ U+005C, \
REVERSE SOLIDUS
[
[U+005B]
Basic Latin ]
[U+005D]
U+FE68, ﹨
SMALL REVERSE SOLIDUS
[unassigned: U+FE67]

[U+FE66]
Small Form Variants
[U+FE69]
U+FF3C, \
FULLWIDTH REVERSE SOLIDUS

[U+FF3B]
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
[U+FF3D]
U+29F9, ⧹
BIG REVERSE SOLIDUS

[U+29F8]
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
[U+29FA]
🙽 U+1F67D, 🙽
VERY HEAVY REVERSE SOLIDUS
🙼
[U+1F67C]
Ornamental Dingbats 🙾
[U+1F67E]

Translingual edit

Alternative forms edit

  • Users with Japanese or Korean settings on their computers may see that country's respective currency symbol instead. See   Backslash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Symbol edit

\ (English symbol name backslash)

  1. (computing) A common prefix for escape characters.
  2. (computing) A pathname component separator in some operating systems, predominantly Microsoft ones.
    Coordinate term: /
  3. (regular expressions) Matches what the nth marked subexpression matched using parentheses: ( ).
    \7 matches the 7th subexpression

Usage notes edit

  • Most operating systems use the slash ⟨/⟩ as a pathname component separator. This is by no means comprehensive however; PRIMOS and Multics for example used ⟨>⟩. Microsoft OSes, such as Windows and DOS, are the major ones which use backslash as the separator, for historical reasons.[1]

See also edit

Punctuation

References edit

  1. ^ Larry Osterman (2005-06-24), “Why is the DOS path character "\"?”, in Larry Osterman's WebLog[1], archived from the original on 2010-06-12

Further reading edit