Backslash
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The backslash \ is a 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. It is sometimes called a hack, whack, escape (from C/UNIX), reverse slash, slosh, downwhack, backslant, backwhack, bash, reverse slant, reverse solidus, and reversed virgule.[1][2]
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In Unicode | U+005C \ REVERSE SOLIDUS (\) |
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See also | U+29F5 ⧵ REVERSE SOLIDUS OPERATOR U+29F9 ⧹ BIG REVERSE SOLIDUS |
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