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Character	English Name	French Name
[	Left square bracket	Crochet ouvrant
]	Right square bracket	Crochet fermant
{	Left curly bracket	Accolade ouvrante
}	Right curly bracket	Accolade fermante
(	Left parenthesis	Parenthèse ouvrante
)	Right parenthesis	Parenthèse fermante
*	Asterisk	Astérisque
/	Forward slash	Barre oblique (slash)
+	Plus sign	Signe plus
-	Hyphen/minus sign	Tiret/signe moins
%	Percent sign	Pour cent (pourcentage)
\	Backslash	Antislash/barre oblique inversée
		Vertical bar/pipe	Barre verticale/tube
^	Caret	Accent circonflexe
<	Less than sign	Signe inférieur
>	Greater than sign	Signe supérieur
~	Tilde	Tilde
!	Exclamation mark	Point d'exclamation
=	Equals sign	Signe égal
??	Null coalescing operator	Opérateur de coalescence nulle
?	Question mark	Point d'interrogation
,	Comma	Virgule
;	Semicolon	Point-virgule
:	Colon	Deux-points
.	Period/full stop	Point
`	Grave accent	Accent grave
´	Acute accent	Accent aigu
_	Underscore	Tiret bas
-	Hyphen	Tiret
@	At symbol	Arobase
#	Number sign/hash	Dièse
"	Quotation mark	Guillemets/quotation
'	Apostrophe	Apostrophe
&	Ampersand	Esperluette/et commercial

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Braces and Brackets

• { and }: Block delimiters for classes, methods, namespaces, and control flow structures.
• [ and ]: Array indexing, attribute application, and indexer declarations.
• ( and ): Parameter lists, method calls, and expression grouping.

Operators

• +: Addition, string concatenation, unary plus.
• -: Subtraction, unary negation.
• *: Multiplication, pointer declaration.
• /: Division.
• %: Modulus (remainder).
• ++: Increment.
• --: Decrement.
• +=: Addition assignment.
• -=: Subtraction assignment.
• *=: Multiplication assignment.
• /=: Division assignment.
• %=: Modulus assignment.
• &: Bitwise AND, reference.
• |: Bitwise OR.
• ^: Bitwise XOR.
• ~: Bitwise complement.
• <<: Left shift.
• >>: Right shift.
• &=: Bitwise AND assignment.
• |=: Bitwise OR assignment.
• ^=: Bitwise XOR assignment.
• <<=: Left shift assignment.
• >>=: Right shift assignment.

Comparison and Logical Operators

• ==: Equality.
• !=: Inequality.
• >: Greater than.
• <: Less than.
• >=: Greater than or equal to.
• <=: Less than or equal to.
• &&: Logical AND.
• ||: Logical OR.
• !: Logical negation.
• ??: Null-coalescing.
• ?:: Ternary conditional.

Other Symbols

• =: Assignment.
• ;: Statement terminator.
• :: Label, base class or interface specification, ternary conditional separator.
• ,: Parameter, argument, or array element separator.
• .: Member access, decimal point.
• ->: Pointer to member access.
• =>: Lambda operator.
• ??=: Null-coalescing assignment.
• $: String interpolation.
• @: Verbatim string literal, identifier prefix.
• #: Preprocessor directive.
• \\: Escape sequence in strings.
• \": Escape sequence for double quote in strings.
• \': Escape sequence for single quote in characters.
• \n: Escape sequence for new line.
• \t: Escape sequence for tab.
• _: Used in discard patterns and variable names.

Comments

• //: Single-line comment.
• /* */: Multi-line comment.

Preprocessor Directives

• #define: Define a symbol.
• #undef: Undefine a symbol.
• #if, #elif, #else, #endif: Conditional compilation.
• #error: Generate an error.
• #warning: Generate a warning.
• #region, #endregion: Code region.
• #pragma: Compiler-specific instructions.

String Literals

• ": String delimiter.
• ': Character delimiter.

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Additional Operators

• ??: Null-coalescing operator.
• ?.: Null-conditional member access operator.
• ?[: Null-conditional index operator.
• ::: Qualified alias member (used with namespaces and type names).

Interpolated String and Verbatim String Characters

• $"...": String interpolation.
• @"...": Verbatim string literal.

Escape Sequences in Strings

• \a: Bell/alert.
• \b: Backspace.
• \f: Form feed.
• \r: Carriage return.
• \v: Vertical tab.
• \u: Unicode escape sequence (e.g., \u0041 for 'A').
• \U: Unicode escape sequence for characters outside the BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane).
• \x: Hexadecimal escape sequence.

Miscellaneous Characters

• \0: Null character (NUL).
• \?: Question mark in character and string literals.
• \ : Escape character.

Numeric Literals

• _: Digit separator in numeric literals (e.g., 1_000_000).

XML Documentation Comments

• ///: Triple-slash comments for XML documentation.
• <![CDATA[...]]>: CDATA section in XML comments.
• <summary>...</summary>: XML documentation summary.
• <remarks>...</remarks>: XML documentation remarks.
• <param name="...">...</param>: XML documentation parameter.
• <returns>...</returns>: XML documentation return value.

Contextual Keywords

• value: Used in property set accessor to represent the value being assigned.
• var: Implicitly typed local variable.
• dynamic: Dynamically typed variable.
• async: Marks an asynchronous method.
• await: Awaits the completion of an asynchronous task.

Directive Keywords

• using: Importing namespaces.
• namespace: Declaring a namespace.
• extern: Indicating external methods.
• partial: Defining partial classes or methods.
• yield: Returning values from an iterator.
• fixed: Declaring fixed-size buffers.
• unsafe: Indicating an unsafe context.
• lock: Synchronization statement.
• sealed: Preventing inheritance.

Attribute-related Symbols

• [attribute]: Applying attributes to code elements.
• [assembly: attribute]: Applying attributes at the assembly level.

Generic Type Parameters

• <T>: Declaring generic types and methods.

Documentation Tags

• <c>: Inline code documentation.
• <code>: Block of code documentation.
• <example>: Example code documentation.
• <exception>: Exception documentation.
• <include>: Including external XML documentation.
• <inheritdoc>: Inheriting documentation from base class.
• <list>: List documentation.
• <paramref>: Parameter reference documentation.
• <permission>: Permission documentation.
• <remarks>: Additional remarks documentation.
• <returns>: Return value documentation.
• <see>: Cross-reference documentation.
• <seealso>: Additional cross-reference documentation.
• <summary>: Summary documentation.
• <typeparam>: Type parameter documentation.
• <value>: Property value documentation.