This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a wide version of the glyph Glyph for U+002FSolidus. Accordingly, its width in East Asian Text is fullwidth. In bidirectional text it is written as number separator according to the number it separates. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+FF0F offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
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
65295
UTF-8
EF BC 8F
UTF-16
FF 0F
UTF-32
00 00 FF 0F
URL-Quoted
%EF%BC%8F
HTML hex reference
/
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
ï¼
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
A2 41
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
A2 41
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)
81 5E
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)
A3 AF
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
A1 FE
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
A1 BF
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
A1 BF
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
A1 BF
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)
A3 AF
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes)
A3 AF
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)
A3 AF
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
A3 AF
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes)
7E 7B 23 2F 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 3F 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 3F 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 3F 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 3F 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 3F 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 3F 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)
1B 24 29 43 0E 23 2F 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)
DA 3F
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
81 5E
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
81 5E
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
81 5E
Adobe Glyph List
slashmonospace
RFC 5137
\u'FF0F'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\uFF0F
C and C++
\uFF0F
C#
\uFF0F
CSS
\00FF0F
Excel
=UNICHAR(65295)
Go
\uFF0F
JavaScript
\uFF0F
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{ff0f}
JSON
\uFF0F
Java
\uFF0F
Lua
\u{FF0F}
Matlab
char(65295)
Perl
"\x{FF0F}"
PHP
\u{ff0f}
PostgreSQL
U&'\FF0F'
PowerShell
`u{FF0F}
Python
\uFF0F
Ruby
\u{ff0f}
Rust
\u{ff0f}
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