Left Parenthesis
Group: Punctuation
Keywords
About this character
Left Parenthesis belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+0028. It was added in Unicode 0.0.
Shortcode
Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.
Technical codes
- Code point
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U+0028 - Hex
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0028 - Decimal
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40 - HTML
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( - CSS
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\28 - JavaScript
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\u0028 - Python
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\u0028 - UTF-8
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28
The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.