const.id

html-entity

\

\

\

HTML named character reference \ maps to U+005C.

Mapping

Named reference
\
Code point(s)
U+005C
Decimal
92
Characters
\

Numeric character references

Named
Decimal
Hex

Usage

Prefer a named reference when the character must survive encoding mistakes or is awkward to type. Numeric references (\) are always valid HTML for the mapped code point(s).

Related

Unicode

U+005C

ASCII

0x5C

Same character

Other entities

Entities that produce this code point

Source

Unicode
16.0.0
WHATWG
snapshot 2026-08-02