| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | control escape sequence | 控件转义序列 (In regular expressions, a backslash followed by the letter "c" followed by one of the letters "a" through "z" or "A" through 'Z'. It matches the ASCII control character that is named by that letter) |
| comp., MS | escape sequence | 转义序列 (A character combination consisting of an escape character, usually a backslash, followed by a letter or by a combination of digits) |
| comp., MS | hexadecimal escape sequence | 十六进制转义序列 (In regular expressions, a backslash followed by the letter "x" followed by a sequence of hexadecimal digits. It matches a character in the target sequence that has the value that is specified by the two digits) |
| comp., MS | octal escape sequence | 八进制转义序列 (In regular expressions, a backslash followed by one, two, or three octal digits (0-7). It matches a character in the target sequence that has the value that is specified by those digits) |
| comp., MS | unicode escape sequence | unicode 转义序列 (In regular expressions, a backslash followed by the letter "u" followed by four hexadecimal digits. It matches a character in the target sequence that has the value that is specified by the four digits) |