(

See also: :(

Translingual

Character	(
Unicode name	LEFT PARENTHESIS
Unicode block	Basic Latin
Codepoint	U+0028
' ← Basic Latin → )

Punctuation mark

(

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

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:(.

Derived terms

• ﹙ (small form variant)

Synonyms

• (parenthetical phrase) —

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, UK) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” ) quotation marks (informal, US, Computing) ( " ) ( ' )

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

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Chinese

Punctuation mark

(

1. Used in ( ).

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Japanese

Punctuation mark

(

1. Used in ( ).