# [✓] Meaning of symbol  ?

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 Hello everyone. What is the meaning of the symbol ? How can I get it with keyboard?Thank you in advance.
1 month ago
8 Replies
 Can you look at your system settings and check what keyboard layout you are using?
1 month ago
 Hi @J.M. My keyboard layout is qwerty. On my keyboard there isn't the symbol  . There is only ' .
1 month ago
 J. M. 1 Vote In a normal US Keyboard layout, the backtick can usually be found above the Tab key and to the left of the 1 key:The reason I asked about keyboard layouts is that sometimes the OS also imposes its own keyboard layout. To change this, there are OS-specific instructions.For Windows, see this, for Linux see this, and for Mac see this.
1 month ago
 Neil Singer 1 Vote It depends on where you are using it. Please give an example. @Sander Huisman wrote a great list of the various symbols and their meaning. Sander -- could you post that list as a PDF in the other thread? I think it would be tremendously useful-- I keep the link around on my system as a reminder "cheat" sheet.Regards
1 month ago
 Hi. There are many examples. The last is: StringTemplate["a is , b is "][5555, 6666] 
1 month ago
 Valeriu Ungureanu 2 Votes The character code is In[1]:= ToCharacterCode[""] Out[1]= {96} So, you may enter it by pressing the key combination: Alt+9+6.
1 month ago

Summing up:

## Contexts (tutorial/Contexts)

The basic idea is that the full name of any symbol is broken into two parts: a context and a short name. The full name is written as contextshort, where the  is the backquote or grave accent character (ASCII decimal code 96), called a "context mark" in the Wolfram Language.

• contextname or c1c2...name a symbol in an explicitly specified context

• name a symbol in the current context

• contextname a symbol in a specific context relative to the current context

• name a symbol in the current context, or found on the context search path

## Numbers

• Numbers entered in the form digitsp are taken to have precision p. ref/Precision

• Numbers entered in the form digitsa are taken to have accuracy a. ref/Accuracy

## Templates (ref/TemplateSlot)

• In a string template given as a string, or in a file template, successive  indicate TemplateSlot[i] for successive i.

• The form name for an alphanumeric string name not beginning with digits corresponds to TemplateSlot[1,"name"].