Backslash Escapes and Entities in Markdown
From the Markdown cheat sheet · Escaping and Entities · verified Aug 2026
Backslash Escapes and Entities
Escape punctuation or use an HTML entity.
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\*not italic\*
\# not a heading📌 Backslashes escape ASCII punctuation
🔍 Entity references are decoded before rendering
💡 Use code spans for longer literal syntax
⚠️ Backslashes do not escape arbitrary letters
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