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U+FE59 · SMALL LEFT PARENTHESIS

Small Left Parenthesis

  • CodepointU+FE59
  • NameSMALL LEFT PARENTHESIS
  • Decimal65113
  • BlockSmall Form Variants (U+FE50–U+FE6F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPs — Open Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredYes

About this character

U+FE59 (﹙) is SMALL LEFT PARENTHESIS, an opening bracket or punctuation mark in the Small Form Variants 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 small variant of U+0028 ( (compatibility decomposition <small>). 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+FE5A ﹚.

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type ﹙

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8EF B9 993 bytes
UTF-16FE591 code unit
UTF-320000FE594 bytes
HTML decimal&#65113;
HTML hex&#xFE59;
CSS\FE59in content: "…"
JavaScript\uFE59
JSON\uFE59
Python\uFE59
Python\N{SMALL LEFT PARENTHESIS}by name
Java / C#\uFE59
C / C++\uFE59universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FE59}
Go\uFE59
Ruby\uFE59
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(65113)
URL-encoded%EF%B9%99percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0028 (
NFKDU+0028 (
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Nearby in Small Form Variants

All in block →
U+FE54﹔Small Semicolon U+FE55﹕Small Colon U+FE56﹖Small Question Mark U+FE57﹗Small Exclamation Mark U+FE58﹘Small Em Dash U+FE5A﹚Small Right Parenthesis U+FE5B﹛Small Left Curly Bracket U+FE5C﹜Small Right Curly Bracket U+FE5D﹝Small Left Tortoise Shell Bracket U+FE5E﹞Small Right Tortoise Shell Bracket U+FE5F﹟Small Number Sign