diff --git a/librz/core/cmd/cmd_api.c b/librz/core/cmd/cmd_api.c
index 2295a13a40..1f07cb105f 100644
--- a/librz/core/cmd/cmd_api.c
+++ b/librz/core/cmd/cmd_api.c
@@ -2327,6 +2327,12 @@ static char *unescape_special_chars(const char *s, const char *special_chars) {
 	int i, j = 0;
 
 	for (i = 0; s[i]; i++) {
+		if (s[i] == '\\' && s[i + 1] == '\\') {
+			dst[j++] = '\\';
+			dst[j++] = '\\';
+			i++;
+			continue;
+		}
 		if (s[i] != '\\' || !strchr(special_chars, s[i + 1])) {
 			dst[j++] = s[i];
 			continue;
diff --git a/test/db/cmd/cmd_i b/test/db/cmd/cmd_i
index 7fe339fff6..63dba6da8b 100644
--- a/test/db/cmd/cmd_i
+++ b/test/db/cmd/cmd_i
@@ -5081,13 +5081,16 @@ nth paddr      vaddr      len  size section type  string
 EOF
 RUN
 
-NAME=izzj double quote escape
+NAME=izzj double quote & backslash escape
 FILE==
 CMDS=<<EOF
-wz {} \" \#
+wz {} \" \\\" \\ \\\\ \n \\n \# \\\# \$ \\$
+px~:1.. @!32
 izzj
 EOF
 EXPECT=<<EOF
-[{"vaddr":0,"paddr":0,"ordinal":0,"size":7,"length":6,"section":"","type":"ascii","string":"{} \" #"}]
+0x00000000  7b7d 2022 205c 2220 5c20 5c5c 200a 205c  {} " \" \ \\ . \
+0x00000010  6e20 2320 5c23 2024 205c 2400 0000 0000  n # \# $ \$.....
+[{"vaddr":0,"paddr":0,"ordinal":0,"size":28,"length":27,"section":"","type":"ascii","string":"{} \" \\\" \\ \\\\ \n \\n # \\# $ \\$"}]
 EOF
 RUN
diff --git a/test/db/cmd/write b/test/db/cmd/write
index 4974427d19..42aca8b8cb 100644
--- a/test/db/cmd/write
+++ b/test/db/cmd/write
@@ -447,6 +447,28 @@ EXPECT=<<EOF
 EOF
 RUN
 
+NAME=wz macro + \\ esc seq
+FILE==
+CMDS=<<EOF
+b 16
+$addr=$0
+$new_addr=%v \`$addr\`+16
+(wz16 str; wz ${str} @ `$addr`; px~:1 @ `$addr`; $addr=$`$new_addr`)
+.(wz16 \\)
+.(wz16 \\\\)
+.(wz16 \\a)
+.(wz16 "a \\ b")
+.(wz16 a\\)
+EOF
+EXPECT=<<EOF
+0x00000000  5c00 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  \...............
+0x00000010  5c5c 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  \\..............
+0x00000020  5c61 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  \a..............
+0x00000030  6120 5c20 6200 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  a \ b...........
+0x00000040  615c 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  a\..............
+EOF
+RUN
+
 NAME=Automatically reanalyze function control flow after a write
 FILE==
 ARGS=-a x86 -b 64 -e analysis.detectwrites=true