Reverse Solidus
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 92 on the numeric keypad to insert reverse solidus.
- Alt code
- Alt+92
- HTML entity
- \
- Unicode
- U+005C
About this symbol
The backslash was put into ASCII in 1961 at the suggestion of the computer scientist Bob Bemer, so that the logic signs ∧ and ∨ of the language ALGOL could be typed as /\ and \/. Microsoft’s MS-DOS later used it to separate folders in file paths, because the slash already had another job.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- REVERSE SOLIDUS
- Also called
- Backslash
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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.