Markdown Escaping Characters

You can add a backslash \ in front of the character to display a literal character that would otherwise be used to format text in a Markdown document.

Example

\* With backslash

* Without backslash

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Escaping Characters Table

The following are backslash characters used to escape:

Characters	Name
\	backslash
`	backtick
*	asterisk
_	underscore
{ }	curly braces
[ ]	brackets
< >	angle brackets
( )	parentheses
#	pound sign
+	plus sign
-	minus sign (hyphen)
.	dot
!	exclamation mark
\|	pipe