﹙ is the Unicode character SMALL LEFT PARENTHESIS, code point U+FE59 (decimal 65113) in the Small Form Variants block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ﹙, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes EF B9 99.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+FE59 |
| Decimal | 65113 |
| UTF-8 bytes | EF B9 99 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | FE59 |
| UTF-32 | 0000FE59 |
| HTML decimal | ﹙ |
| HTML hex | ﹙ |
| CSS | \FE59 |
| JavaScript | \uFE59 |
| JSON | \uFE59 |
| Python | \uFE59 |
| Python by name | \N{SMALL LEFT PARENTHESIS} |
| Java, C# | \uFE59 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{FE59} |
| Go, C, C++ | \uFE59 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %EF%B9%99 |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | SMALL LEFT PARENTHESIS |
| Code point | U+FE59 (decimal 65113) |
| Block | Small Form Variants (U+FE50–U+FE6F) |
| General category | Ps: Opening punctuation |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | ON: Other neutral |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | Yes |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
SMALL LEFT PARENTHESIS has a compatibility decomposition (small) to the sequence below. NFKC and NFKD normalisation replace it with that sequence, which can change how text looks, so use them for search, not for storage.
Nearby in Small Form Variants
- ﹐ U+FE50 Small Comma
- ﹑ U+FE51 Small Ideographic Comma
- ﹒ U+FE52 Small Full Stop
- ﹔ U+FE54 Small Semicolon
- ﹕ U+FE55 Small Colon
- ﹖ U+FE56 Small Question Mark
- ﹗ U+FE57 Small Exclamation Mark
- ﹘ U+FE58 Small Em Dash
- ﹚ U+FE5A Small Right Parenthesis
- ﹛ U+FE5B Small Left Curly Bracket
- ﹜ U+FE5C Small Right Curly Bracket
- ﹝ U+FE5D Small Left Tortoise Shell Bracket
- ﹞ U+FE5E Small Right Tortoise Shell Bracket
- ﹟ U+FE5F Small Number Sign
- ﹠ U+FE60 Small Ampersand
- ﹡ U+FE61 Small Asterisk
All 26 characters: Small Form Variants.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ﹙?
- Use ﹙ (decimal) or ﹙ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+FE59?
- EF B9 99 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %EF%B9%99.
- How do I write U+FE59 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \uFE59. Python: \uFE59.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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