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Technical information

Symbol（
NameFullwidth left parenthesis
Unicode numberU+FF08
CategoryFullwidth ASCII variants
DescriptionThe Unicode character （, or U+FF08, is known as the "Fullwidth Left Parenthesis". It belongs to the "Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms" block and falls under the "Punctuation, Open" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a wider version of the standard left parenthesis "(" often used in Asian typography where characters are generally square and occupy a larger amount of horizontal space. Its function is the same as the regular left parenthesis, and it is used to enclose words, phrases, or other parts of text. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity（
HTML Entity (hex)（
URL Escape Code%EF%BC%88
UTF-8 (hex)0xEF 0xBC 0x88
UTF-8 (binary)11101111:10111100:10001000
UTF-160xFF08
UTF-320x0000FF08

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\uFF08"
CSS Code\FF08
JavaScript"\uFF08"
Perl\x{FF08}
Python 2u"\uFF08"
Python 3\uFF08
Ruby\u{FF08}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this （ in sentence and in bold like this （ and in italic like this （.

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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400
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600
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800
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900

HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#65288;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\FF08";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References