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Alternative forms

 * Users with Japanese or Korean settings on their computers may see that country's respective currency symbol instead. See

Symbol

 * 1)  A common prefix for escape characters.
 * 2)  A pathname component separator in some operating systems, predominantly Microsoft ones.
 * 3)  Matches what the nth marked subexpression matched using parentheses:.
 *  matches the 7th subexpression
 *  matches the 7th subexpression

Usage notes

 * Most operating systems use the slash ⟨/⟩ as a pathname component separator. This is by no means comprehensive however; and  for example used ⟨⟩. Microsoft OSes, such as Windows and DOS, are the major ones which use backslash as the separator, for historical reasons.

Punctuation mark

 * 1)  delimiter for polyphonemic transcription.