U+005C Reverse Solidus
U+005C was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Basic Latin in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as backslash.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Narrow East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 14 other glyphs. In text U+005C behaves as Prefix Numeric regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “backslash” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: backslash, reverse solidus, whack.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The backslash is a typographical mark used mainly in computing and mathematics. It is the mirror image of the common slash /. It is a relatively recent mark, first documented in the 1930s.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 92 |
| UTF-8 | 5C |
| UTF-16 | 00 5C |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 5C |
| URL-Quoted | %5C |
| HTML hex reference | \ |
| HTML named entity | \ |
| alias | backslash |
| LATEX | \textbackslash |
| AGL: Latin-1 | backslash |
| AGL: Latin-2 | backslash |
| AGL: Latin-3 | backslash |
| AGL: Latin-4 | backslash |
| AGL: Latin-5 | backslash |
| Adobe Glyph List | backslash |
| digraph | // |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| REVERSE SOLIDUS | |
| BACKSLASH | |
| Basic Latin | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Reverse Solidus | |
| ✘ | |
| Reverse Solidus | |
| Reverse Solidus | |
| ✘ | |
| Reverse Solidus | |
| Reverse Solidus | |
| Reverse Solidus | |
| Reverse Solidus | |
| Reverse Solidus | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Reverse Solidus | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Reverse Solidus | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Reverse Solidus | |
| None | |
| Narrow | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Prefix Numeric | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Reverse Solidus | |
| R |