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Reverse Solidus

U+005C
BMP Unicode 1.1
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Decimal \
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Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+005C
Decimal
92
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Punctuation (Po)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
Na Narrow

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Reverse Solidus.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
\
HTML Hex
\
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
5C
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
00 5C
UTF-32 Hex
0000005C
CSS Escape
\5C
JavaScript Escape
\u005C
Python Escape
\u005C
URL Encoded
%5C
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Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Reverse Solidus as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.