\'
– single quote, needed for character literals\"
– double quote, needed for string literals\\
– backslash\0
– Unicode character 0\a
– Alert (character 7)\b
– Backspace (character 8)\f
– Form feed (character 12)\n
– New line (character 10)\r
– Carriage return (character 13)\t
– Horizontal tab (character 9)\v
– Vertical quote (character 11)\uxxxx
– Unicode escape sequence for character with hex value xxxx\xn[n][n][n]
– Unicode escape sequence for character with hex value nnnn (variable length version of \uxxxx)\Uxxxxxxxx
– Unicode escape sequence for character with hex value xxxxxxxx (for generating surrogates)