Unicode Character "\" (U+FF3C)

The character (Fullwidth Reverse Solidus) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FF3C. It is encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as \.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Fullwidth Reverse Solidus
Unicode Codepoint U+FF3C
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Punctuation
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+FF3C Conversion

HTML (decimal) \
HTML (hex) \
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BC%BC
CSS \00FF3C
JavaScript, JSON \uFF3C
C, C++, Java \uFF3C
Python \uFF3C
Rust \u{FF3C}
Ruby \uFF3C

How to type "\"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F F 3 C. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F F 3 C. Release Alt.

Preview

  • Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBC 0xBC
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFF3C
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FF3C

References