Left Parenthesis (
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U+0028
Symbol Meaning
Left Parenthesis. Basic Latin.
The symbol “Left Parenthesis” is included in the “ASCII punctuation and symbols” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
opening parenthesis.
| Unicode Name | Left Parenthesis |
| Unicode Number | |
| Entity | ( |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Basic Latin |
| Unicode Subblock | ASCII punctuation and symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | Open |
| Bidi Paired Bracket | 0029 |
| bmg | 0029 |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 0028 |
| Simple case change | 0028 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | 28 | 40 | 40 | 00101000 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 28 | 0 40 | 40 | 00000000 00101000 |
| UTF-16LE | 28 00 | 40 0 | 10240 | 00101000 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 28 | 0 0 0 40 | 40 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 00101000 |
| UTF-32LE | 28 00 00 00 | 40 0 0 0 | 671088640 | 00101000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |
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