(

See also: :( and ( )

( U+0028, ( LEFT PARENTHESIS ← ' [U+0027] Basic Latin ) → [U+0029]

Character variations

⁽ U+207D, ⁽ SUPERSCRIPT LEFT PARENTHESIS ← ⁼ [U+207C] Superscripts and Subscripts ⁾ → [U+207E]

₍ U+208D, ₍ SUBSCRIPT LEFT PARENTHESIS ← ₌ [U+208C] Superscripts and Subscripts ₎ → [U+208E]

⎛ U+239B, ⎛ LEFT PARENTHESIS UPPER HOOK ← ⎚ [U+239A] Miscellaneous Technical ⎜ → [U+239C]

⎜ U+239C, ⎜ LEFT PARENTHESIS EXTENSION ← ⎛ [U+239B] Miscellaneous Technical ⎝ → [U+239D]

⎝ U+239D, ⎝ LEFT PARENTHESIS LOWER HOOK ← ⎜ [U+239C] Miscellaneous Technical ⎞ → [U+239E]

︵ U+FE35, ︵ PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT PARENTHESIS ← ︴ [U+FE34] CJK Compatibility Forms ︶ → [U+FE36]

﹙ U+FE59, ﹙ SMALL LEFT PARENTHESIS ← ﹘ [U+FE58] Small Form Variants ﹚ → [U+FE5A]

（ U+FF08, （ FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS ← ＇ [U+FF07] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ） → [U+FF09]

｟ U+FF5F, ｟ FULLWIDTH LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS ← ～ [U+FF5E] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｠ → [U+FF60]

Translingual

Punctuation mark

(

1. Represents a mouth vertically aligned, in order to form emoticons.
2. Used in ( ).

Symbol

(

1. (mathematics) Denotes an open endpoint of an interval.

   $(a,b]=\{x\in \mathbb {R} \,|\,a<x\leq b\}$

Synonyms

• ]

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:(.

See also

• to (Lojban)

Punctuation

• apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
• braces ( { } )
• brackets ( [ ] )
• colon ( : )
• comma ( , )

• dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
• ellipsis ( … )
• exclamation mark ( ! )
• fraction slash ( ⁄ )
• guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )

• hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
• interpunct ( · )
• interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
• parentheses ( ( ) )
• period (US) or full stop (UK) ( . )

• question mark ( ? )
• quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
• quotation marks (informal, Computing) ( " ) ( ' )

• semicolon ( ; )
• slash (US) or stroke (UK) ( / )
• space (   )

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Chinese

Etymology

Internet slang

Perhaps influenced by Japanese (ry.

Punctuation mark

(

1. Used in ( ).
2. (Internet slang) Used at the end of a silly message to indicate that one isn't serious.

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Japanese

Punctuation mark

(

1. Used in ( ).