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U+0028LEFT PARENTHESIS

Opening parenthesis (left round bracket) used for grouping mathematical expressions and enclosing function parameters.

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LEFT PARENTHESIS
U+0028 • Decimal 40
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Character Glyph (Raw)
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Unicode Codepoint (Hex)
U+0028
Decimal Integer
40
HTML Entity (Decimal)
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HTML Entity (Hex)
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JavaScript ES6 / JSON
\u0028
Java / C# (Surrogates)
\u0028
Python 3
\u0028
C / C++ / Rust
\u0028
CSS Content
\000028
URL Percent-Encoded
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Raw UTF-8 Bytes (Hex)
0x28
Base64 Stream
KA==

Unicode Character Database (UCD) Technical Specifications

Unicode 16.0 Standard
Unicode PlanePlane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) • U+0000..U+FFFF
Unicode BlockBasic Latin (U+0..U+7F)
General CategoryLo Other Letter / Symbol
Bidirectional ClassL (Left-to-Right) • Flow: LTR
Unicode Version IntroducedUnicode 1.1 (1993)
UTF-8 Byte Stream0x28 (1 Byte)
UTF-16 Code Units0x0028
UTF-32 Hexadecimal0x00000028

Quick Character Summary

Glyph(
Hex CodepointU+0028
Decimal ID40
ScriptLatin
DirectionLTR (L)
Introduced InUnicode 1.1 (1993)

Device & Font Support

99.9% Support
Apple (iOS / macOS)iOS 1.0+
Google (Android / Chrome)Android 1.0+
Microsoft (Windows)Windows 95+

ASCII core character supported on virtually every digital display and operating system in existence.