` Grave Accent
U+0060
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ℹ️ About
U+0060, known as the Grave Accent, is a versatile modifier symbol in the Basic Latin block. Beyond its role as a diacritical mark in linguistics, it is iconic in computing as the “backtick.” It is essential in Markdown for inline code, in JavaScript for template literals, and in various shell scripts for command substitution. It belongs to the Modifier Symbol (Sk) category and is non-mirrored.
⚠️ Note: Do not confuse with ‘ (U+0027 – Apostrophe) or ´ (U+00B4 – Acute Accent).
⚡ Codes
HTML
`
CSS
\0060
Python
\u0060
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