About the escape character

You can use the backslash escape character (\), to define other characters in string literals.

Escape sequence	Description
`\b`	The backspace character.
`\f`	The form feed character.
`\n`	The newline character.
`\r`	The carriage return.
`\t`	The tab character.
`\unnnn`	The Unicode character with the character code specified by the hexadecimal number nnnn. For example, `\u263a` is the smile character.
`\xnn`	The ASCII character with the character code specified by the hexadecimal number nn.
`\'`	A single quotation mark.
`\"`	A double quotation mark.
`\\`	A single backslash character.

For more information on string literals, see About literals and Creating strings.