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See also: [U+2216 SET MINUS], [U+4E36 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E36], 🙽 [U+1F67D VERY HEAVY REVERSE SOLIDUS], and \ \

\ U+005C, \
REVERSE SOLIDUS
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[U+005B]
Basic Latin ]
[U+005D]

Translingual

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Alternative forms

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  • Users with Japanese or Korean settings on their computers may see that country's respective currency symbol instead. See Backslash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Symbol

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\ (English symbol name backslash)

  1. (computing) A common prefix for escape characters.
  2. (computing) A pathname component separator in some operating systems, predominantly Microsoft ones.
    Coordinate term: /
  3. (regular expressions) Matches what the nth marked subexpression matched using parentheses: ( ).
    \7 matches the 7th subexpression

Usage notes

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  • Most operating systems use the slash ⟨/⟩ as a pathname component separator. This is by no means comprehensive however; PRIMOS and Multics for example used ⟨>⟩. Microsoft OSes, such as Windows and DOS, are the major ones which use backslash as the separator, for historical reasons.[1]

Derived terms

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See also

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Punctuation

References

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  1. ^ Larry Osterman (2005 June 24) “Why is the DOS path character "\"?”, in Larry Osterman's WebLog[1], archived from the original on 2010-06-12

Further reading

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Japanese

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Punctuation mark

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  1. (lexicography, linguistics) used to denote pitch accent drops (()がり() (sagarime))
    • 2016, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典, Tokyo: NHK出版, →ISBN, , page 1041:
      ねほりはほり【根掘り葉掘り】(〜尋ねる)
      ホリ・ハホリ
      ネホリハホリ
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See also

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