The
backslash (
\) is a typographical mark (
glyph) used mainly in
computing and is the
mirror image of the common
slash (/). It is sometimes called a
hack,
whack,
escape (from
C/
UNIX),
reverse slash,
slosh,
backslant,
downhill,
backwhack, and in rare occasions,
bash,
reverse slant, and
reversed virgule. In Unicode, it is encoded at .