Write Formatting Characters in Markdown

Markdown treats these characters as ordinary text if there is backslash escape character in front of them.

  1. \\ backslash itself
  2. \` backtick
  3. \* asterisk
  4. \_ underscore
  5. \{\ } curly braces
  6. \[ \] square brackets
  7. \(\ ) parentheses
  8. \# hash mark