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U+208D · SUBSCRIPT LEFT PARENTHESIS

Subscript Left Parenthesis

  • CodepointU+208D
  • NameSUBSCRIPT LEFT PARENTHESIS
  • Decimal8333
  • BlockSuperscripts and Subscripts (U+2070–U+209F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPs — Open Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredYes

About this character

U+208D (₍) is SUBSCRIPT LEFT PARENTHESIS, an opening bracket or punctuation mark in the Superscripts and Subscripts block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a subscript form of U+0028 ( (compatibility decomposition <sub>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0028 (. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

It is a mirrored character: in right-to-left text it is displayed as its mirror image, which matches U+208E ₎.

How to type ₍

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 82 8D3 bytes
UTF-16208D1 code unit
UTF-320000208D4 bytes
HTML decimal&#8333;
HTML hex&#x208D;
CSS\208Din content: "…"
JavaScript\u208D
JSON\u208D
Python\u208D
Python\N{SUBSCRIPT LEFT PARENTHESIS}by name
Java / C#\u208D
C / C++\u208Duniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{208D}
Go\u208D
Ruby\u208D
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8333)
URL-encoded%E2%82%8Dpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0028 (
NFKDU+0028 (
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Nearby in Superscripts and Subscripts

All in block →
U+2087₇Subscript Seven U+2088₈Subscript Eight U+2089₉Subscript Nine U+208A₊Subscript Plus Sign U+208B₋Subscript Minus U+208C₌Subscript Equals Sign U+208E₎Subscript Right Parenthesis U+2090ₐLatin Subscript Small Letter A U+2091ₑLatin Subscript Small Letter E U+2092ₒLatin Subscript Small Letter O U+2093ₓLatin Subscript Small Letter X