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U+0028 · LEFT PARENTHESIS

Left Parenthesis

  • CodepointU+0028
  • NameLEFT PARENTHESIS
  • Decimal40
  • BlockBasic Latin (U+0000–U+007F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPs — Open Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthNa — Narrow
  • MirroredYes
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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8281 byte
UTF-1600281 code unit
UTF-32000000284 bytes
HTML named(named character reference
HTML decimal(
HTML hex(
CSS\28in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0028
JSON\u0028
Python\u0028
Python\N{LEFT PARENTHESIS}by name
Java / C#\u0028
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{28}
Go\u0028
Ruby\u0028
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(40)
URL-encoded%28percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

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Characters built on (

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Nearby in Basic Latin

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