This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is mirrored into Big Reverse Solidus. The word that U+29F8 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark /. It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names. Once used to mark periods and commas, the slash is now used to represent division and fractions, exclusive 'or' and inclusive 'or', and as a date separator.
A slash in the reverse direction is known as a backslash.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
10744
UTF-8
E2 A7 B8
UTF-16
29 F8
UTF-32
00 00 29 F8
URL-Quoted
%E2%A7%B8
HTML hex reference
⧸
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
⧸
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 38 89 38
RFC 5137
\u'29F8'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u29F8
C and C++
\u29F8
C#
\u29F8
CSS
\0029F8
Excel
=UNICHAR(10744)
Go
\u29F8
JavaScript
\u29F8
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{29f8}
JSON
\u29F8
Java
\u29F8
Lua
\u{29F8}
Matlab
char(10744)
Perl
"\x{29F8}"
PHP
\u{29f8}
PostgreSQL
U&'\29F8'
PowerShell
`u{29F8}
Python
\u29F8
Ruby
\u{29f8}
Rust
\u{29f8}
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