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U+FF08 · FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS

Fullwidth Left Parenthesis

  • CodepointU+FF08
  • NameFULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS
  • Decimal65288
  • BlockHalfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (U+FF00–U+FFEF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPs — Open Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthF — Fullwidth
  • MirroredYes

About this character

U+FF08 (（) is FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS, an opening bracket or punctuation mark in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 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 fullwidth form of U+0028 ( (compatibility decomposition <wide>). 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+FF09 ）.

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

How to type （

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8EF BC 883 bytes
UTF-16FF081 code unit
UTF-320000FF084 bytes
HTML decimal&#65288;
HTML hex&#xFF08;
CSS\FF08in content: "…"
JavaScript\uFF08
JSON\uFF08
Python\uFF08
Python\N{FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS}by name
Java / C#\uFF08
C / C++\uFF08universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FF08}
Go\uFF08
Ruby\uFF08
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(65288)
URL-encoded%EF%BC%88percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0028 (
NFKDU+0028 (
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Nearby in Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

All in block →
U+FF02＂Fullwidth Quotation Mark U+FF03＃Fullwidth Number Sign U+FF04＄Fullwidth Dollar Sign U+FF05％Fullwidth Percent Sign U+FF06＆Fullwidth Ampersand U+FF07＇Fullwidth Apostrophe U+FF09）Fullwidth Right Parenthesis U+FF0A＊Fullwidth Asterisk U+FF0B＋Fullwidth Plus Sign U+FF0C，Fullwidth Comma U+FF0D－Fullwidth Hyphen-Minus U+FF0E．Fullwidth Full Stop