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) U+0029, )
RIGHT PARENTHESIS
(
[U+0028]
Basic Latin *
[U+002A]
U+207E, ⁾
SUPERSCRIPT RIGHT PARENTHESIS

[U+207D]
Superscripts and Subscripts
[U+207F]
See also: :)

Translingual

Punctuation mark

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  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

Punctuation


Chinese

Punctuation mark

)

  1. Used in ( ).

Japanese

Punctuation mark

)

  1. Used in ( ).