Unicode Character "﹙" (U+FE59)

The character ﹙ (Small Left Parenthesis) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FE59. It is encoded in the Small Form Variants block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ﹙. Its mirrored character is ﹚ (U+FE5A).

Main Unicode Properties

Name Small Left Parenthesis
Unicode Codepoint U+FE59
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Small Form Variants
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? Yes
Mirrored character ﹚ (U+FE5A)

Other Unicode Data

Category Open Punctuation
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+FE59 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ﹙
HTML (hex) ﹙
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%B9%99
CSS \00FE59
JavaScript, JSON \uFE59
C, C++, Java \uFE59
Python \uFE59
Rust \u{FE59}
Ruby \uFE59

How to type "﹙"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F E 5 9. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F E 5 9. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ﹙
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ﹙
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ﹙
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xB9 0x99
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFE59
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FE59

References