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Technical information
| Symbol | ( | |
| Name | Left parenthesis | |
| Unicode number | U+0028 | |
| Category | ASCII Table2. ASCII punctuation and symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character (, or U+0028, is known as the "Left Parenthesis". It falls under the "Basic Latin" block and the "Punctuation, open" category in the Unicode standard. The left parenthesis is widely used in mathematics, writing, and programming. In mathematics, it is used to group terms together in an equation, or to denote an interval. In writing, it is used to insert additional information, clarifications, or side remarks. In programming languages, it often signifies the start of a parameter list for a function or method, or can be used to control order of operations. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ( | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ( | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ( | |
| URL Escape Code | %28 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x28 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00101000 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x0028 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00000028 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u0028" | |
| CSS Code | \0028 | |
| JavaScript | "\u0028" | |
| Perl | \x{0028} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u0028" | |
| Python 3 | \u0028 | |
| Ruby | \u{0028} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ( in sentence and in bold like this ( and in italic like this (.
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HTML Forms and Input
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>(</span>
span {
content: "\0028";
}The symbol in different fonts
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Apple Color Emoji
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Courier New
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