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U+005C CHARACTER

REVERSE SOLIDUS

Quick Facts

Unicode Name REVERSE SOLIDUS
Code Point U+005C
Decimal Value 92
General Category Other Punctuation (Po) →
Unicode Block Basic Latin →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 1 byte 5C
UTF-16 Code Unit 005C
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000005C
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 5C LE: 5C 00
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 00 5C LE: 5C 00 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal \
HTML Hexadecimal \
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00005C
JavaScript (ES6) \u005C
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u005C
JSON Escape \u005C
Python \u005C
PHP "\u{5C}"
Java "\u005C"
C / C++ "\u005C"
Rust '\u{5c}'
URL Percent-Encoded %5C

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+005C across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
\
Context: A \ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
\
Context: A \ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
\
Context: A \ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
\
Context: A \ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name REVERSE SOLIDUS

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+005C

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