U+005C REVERSE SOLIDUS

The Unicode character U+005C, officially named REVERSE SOLIDUS, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the ASCII block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as BACKSLASH.

Categorized technically as a Other Punctuation, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has narrow in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.