diff --git a/packages/lu/src/parser/lufile/visitor.js b/packages/lu/src/parser/lufile/visitor.js
index 66f3dfdfc..3ef481f7e 100644
--- a/packages/lu/src/parser/lufile/visitor.js
+++ b/packages/lu/src/parser/lufile/visitor.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 const lp = require('./generated/LUFileParser').LUFileParser;
 const LUISObjNameEnum = require('./../utils/enums/luisobjenum');
 const InvalidCharsInIntentOrEntityName = require('./../utils/enums/invalidchars').InvalidCharsInIntentOrEntityName;
+const EscapeCharsInUtterance = require('./../utils/enums/escapechars').EscapeCharsInUtterance;
 
 class Visitor {
     /**
@@ -20,6 +21,12 @@ class Visitor {
                     utterance = this.recurselyResolveTokenizedUtterance(tokUtt, entities, errorMsgs, utterance.trimLeft()); 
                     break;
                 }
+                case lp.ESCAPE_CHARACTER: {
+                    let escapeCharacters = innerNode.getText();
+                    let escapedUtterace = escapeCharacters.length > 1 && EscapeCharsInUtterance.includes(escapeCharacters[1]) ? escapeCharacters.slice(1) : escapeCharacters;
+                    utterance = utterance.concat(escapedUtterace);
+                    break;
+                }
                 default: {
                     utterance = utterance.concat(innerNode.getText());
                     break;
diff --git a/packages/lu/src/parser/utils/enums/escapechars.js b/packages/lu/src/parser/utils/enums/escapechars.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0dc5aa636
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/lu/src/parser/utils/enums/escapechars.js
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+ * Licensed under the MIT License.
+ */
+ // Escape chars in utterance
+module.exports = {
+    EscapeCharsInUtterance: ['{', '}', '\\']
+};
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/lu/test/parser/lufile/parseFileContents.parseFile.test.js b/packages/lu/test/parser/lufile/parseFileContents.parseFile.test.js
index f029b5cae..2cb34f778 100644
--- a/packages/lu/test/parser/lufile/parseFileContents.parseFile.test.js
+++ b/packages/lu/test/parser/lufile/parseFileContents.parseFile.test.js
@@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@ describe('parseFile correctly parses utterances', function () {
                         .then(res => {
                                 assert.equal(res.LUISJsonStructure.patternAnyEntities.length, 0);
                                 assert.equal(res.LUISJsonStructure.entities.length, 0);
-                                assert.equal(res.LUISJsonStructure.utterances[0].text, 'this is a \\{test\\}');
+                                assert.equal(res.LUISJsonStructure.utterances[0].text, 'this is a {test}');
                                 assert.equal(res.LUISJsonStructure.utterances[1].text, 'this ia a test \\n');
                                 done();
                         })
@@ -1112,4 +1112,39 @@ describe('parseFile correctly parses utterances', function () {
                 })
                 .catch(err => done(err))
         })
+
+        it("Correctly parses utterance with escape char \\ to escape entity definition", function (done) {
+          let testLU = `
+                      # test
+                      - this is another \\{@from = one} from \\{@to = tokyo} \\in japan`;
+          parseFile
+            .parseFile(testLU)
+            .then((res) => {
+              assert.equal(
+                res.LUISJsonStructure.utterances[0].text,
+                "this is another {@from = one} from {@to = tokyo} \\in japan"
+              );
+              done();
+            })
+            .catch((err) => done(err));
+        });
+
+        it("Correctly parses utterance that keeps @ at the the beginning of entity name", function (done) {
+          let testLU = `
+                      # test
+                      - this is another \\\\{@@from = one} from {@@to = tokyo}`;
+          parseFile
+            .parseFile(testLU)
+            .then((res) => {
+              assert.equal(
+                res.LUISJsonStructure.utterances[0].text,
+                "this is another \\one from tokyo"
+              );
+              assert.equal(res.LUISJsonStructure.entities.length, 2);
+              assert.equal(res.LUISJsonStructure.entities[0].name, "@from");
+              assert.equal(res.LUISJsonStructure.entities[1].name, "@to");
+              done();
+            })
+            .catch((err) => done(err));
+        });
 })