Solidus
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 47 on the numeric keypad to insert solidus.
- Alt code
- Alt+47
- HTML entity
- /
- Unicode
- U+002F
About this symbol
The slash, also called a stroke, solidus or virgule, was a common medieval mark for a short pause, and it was the ancestor of the comma. Today it separates the parts of dates and web addresses and stands for division in computing.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SOLIDUS
- Also called
- Slash, forward slash, virgule
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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.