Grave Accent
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 96 on the numeric keypad to insert grave accent.
- Alt code
- Alt+96
- HTML entity
- `
- Unicode
- U+0060
About this symbol
The backtick is the spacing grave accent of the keyboard. Programmers use it in several languages, for example to mark code in the Markdown format and to quote names in MySQL.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GRAVE ACCENT
- Also called
- Backtick, backquote
- Type
- Modifier symbol
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- This is a spacing character
- In some technical contexts functions as opening quote, paired with apostrophe
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.