Low Line
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 95 on the numeric keypad to insert low line.
- Alt code
- Alt+95
- HTML entity
- _
- Unicode
- U+005F
About this symbol
The underscore comes from typewriters, where typists underlined words by backspacing and typing it under each letter. Computers took it up to join words in names that cannot contain spaces, such as file and variable names.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LOW LINE
- Also called
- Spacing underscore (1.0)
- Type
- Connecting punctuation
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- This is a spacing character
- Joins with adjacent instances of itself
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.