Markdown allows you to use backslash escapes to create literal characters that would otherwise have special meaning in Markdown formatting syntax.


\

backslash

`

backtick

*

asterisk

_

underscore

{ }

curly braces

[ ]

square brackets

( )

parentheses

#

hash mark

+

plus sign

-

minus sign (hyphen)

.

dot

!

exclamation mark

~

tilde