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See also: :)

) U+0029, ) RIGHT PARENTHESIS ← ( [U+0028] Basic Latin * → [U+002A]

﹚ U+FE5A, ﹚ SMALL RIGHT PARENTHESIS ← ﹙ [U+FE59] Small Form Variants ﹛ → [U+FE5B]

⁾ U+207E, ⁾ SUPERSCRIPT RIGHT PARENTHESIS ← ⁽ [U+207D] Superscripts and Subscripts ⁿ → [U+207F]

） U+FF09, ） FULLWIDTH RIGHT PARENTHESIS ← （ [U+FF08] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ＊ → [U+FF0A]

｠ U+FF60, ｠ FULLWIDTH RIGHT WHITE PARENTHESIS ← ｟ [U+FF5F] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｡ → [U+FF61]

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, b) London, c) Paris.

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

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

3. Used in ( ).

Quotations

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

Synonyms

• (separater between a number and an item) .

Symbol

)

1. (mathematics) In set builder notation, an inward facing parenthesis denotes an open endpoint of an interval.

   $[a,b)=\{x\in \mathbb {R} \,|\,a\leq x<b\}$

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) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )
• 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 ( ).

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Russian

Punctuation mark

)

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) :-)