Reverse Solidus Operator vs Reverse Solidus

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

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Reverse Solidus Operator

U+29F5
\

Reverse Solidus

U+005C

Property Comparison

Property Reverse Solidus Operator Reverse Solidus
Codepoint U+29F5 U+005C
Decimal 10741 92
HTML Entity ⧵ \
HTML Decimal ⧵ \
HTML Hex ⧵ \
UTF-8 E2 A7 B5 5C
UTF-16 29 F5 00 5C
UTF-32 000029F5 0000005C
CSS Escape \29F5 \5C
JS Escape \u29F5 \u005C
Python Escape \u29F5 \u005C
URL Encoded %E2%A7%B5 %5C
Category Math Symbol (Sm) Other Punctuation (Po)
Block Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B Basic Latin
Script Common Common
Bidi Class ON ON
Unicode Version 3.2 1.1
Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.