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(	U+0028, ( LEFT PARENTHESIS

Basic Latin

⁽	U+207D, ⁽ SUPERSCRIPT LEFT PARENTHESIS

← ⁼
[U+207C]

Superscripts and Subscripts

⁾ →
[U+207E]

See also: :(

Translingual

Punctuation mark

(

Represents a mouth vertically aligned, in order to form emoticons.
Used in ( ).

Quotations

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

Derived terms

﹙ (small form variant)

Synonyms

(parenthetical phrase) —

See also

to (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 ( )

Chinese

Punctuation mark

(

Used in ( ).

Japanese

Punctuation mark

(

Used in ( ).