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Left Parenthesis

Group: Punctuation

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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
U+0028
Hex
0028
Decimal
40
HTML
(
CSS
\28
JavaScript
\u0028
Python
\u0028
UTF-8
28

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Related

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.