\

See also: ∖ [U+2216 SET MINUS], 丶 [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

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

Symbol

\ (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
  • 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]

Punctuation mark

\

  1. (linguistics) delimiter for polyphonemic transcription.

Coordinate terms
  • / / (encloses phonemic transcription)
  • [ ] (encloses phonetic transcription)
  • ⟨ ⟩ (encloses orthographic transcription)

See also

Punctuation

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

Further reading
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