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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	SOLIDUS
Codepoint	002F

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Symbol 1.1.1 Synonyms 1.2 See also 2 English 2.1 Symbol

[edit] Translingual

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/

1. (typography) the slash.

[edit] Synonyms

• virgule, diagonal, stroke, forward slash, oblique dash, slant, separatrix, scratch comma, or whack
• Confusingly, it is defined by Unicode and ISO as the solidus contradicting long-established English typesetting terminology. The "solidus" proper is encoded at U+2215 as "division slash":∕.

[edit] See also

• Slash_(punctuation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( ⟨ ⟩ ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … )

exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )

interrobang ( ‽ ) question mark ( ? ) quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )

semicolon ( ; ) slash/solidus ( / ) ( ⁄ ) space (   ) interpunct ( · )

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[edit] English

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/

1. elucidate a strong joint between words or phrases

   "the Hemingway/Faulkner generation"

2. (informal) or
3. used to indicate a line break or paragraph break in a multiple line quote
4. used to form some abbreviates or initialism (e.g. R/C, i/o, w/)