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Character	)
Unicode name	RIGHT PARENTHESIS
Unicode block	Basic Latin
Codepoint	U+0029
( ← Basic Latin → *

See also: :)

Translingual

Punctuation mark

)

1. Represents a mouth vertically aligned, in order to form emoticons.
2. Separates a number or letter from an item in a list. Compare ( ), as in "(A) Milk, (B) Eggs, (C) Flour".

   A) New York, B) London, C) Paris.

   a) New York, c) London, c) Paris.

   1) New York, 2) London, 3) Paris.

   I) New York, II) London, III) Paris.

3. Used in ( ).

Quotations

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

Derived terms

• ﹚ (small form variant)

Synonyms

• (parenthetical phrase) —
• (separater between a number and an item) .

See also

• toi (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 ( ).