(

See also: :( and ( )

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

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

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

（ 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

Punctuation mark

(

1. Used in ( ).

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Japanese

Punctuation mark

(

1. Used in ( ).