See also: ∖ [U+2216 SET MINUS],
丶 [U+4E36 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E36],
🙽 [U+1F67D VERY HEAVY REVERSE SOLIDUS],
₩ [U+20A9 WON SIGN], and ¥ [U+00A5 YEN SIGN]
Translingual
- Users with Japanese or Korean settings on their computers may see that country's respective currency symbol instead. See Backslash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Symbol
\ (English symbol name backslash)
- (computing) A common prefix for escape characters.
- (computing) A pathname component separator in some operating systems, predominantly Microsoft ones.
- Coordinate term: /
- (regular expressions) Matches what the nth marked subexpression matched using parentheses: ( ).
\7 matches the 7th subexpression
Usage notes
- 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
See also
Punctuation
References
- ^ Larry Osterman (24 June 2005) “Why is the DOS path character "\"?”, in Larry Osterman's WebLog[1], archived from the original on 12 June 2010
Further reading
Japanese
Punctuation mark
＼
- (lexicography, linguistics) used to denote pitch accent drops (下がり目 (sagarime))
2016, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典, Tokyo: NHK出版, →ISBN, ね, page 1041:ねほりはほり【根掘り葉掘り】（〜尋ねる）
ネ＼ホリ・ハ＼ホリ
ネホリハ＼ホリ- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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