# ﹙ U+FE59 SMALL LEFT PARENTHESIS

Small opening round bracket, a compact form variant of the left parenthesis used in CJK text layouts.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `﹙` |
| Codepoint | U+FE59 |
| Name | SMALL LEFT PARENTHESIS |
| Block | [Small Form Variants](https://unicodekit.com/block/small-form-variants) |
| Script | Common |
| Category | Open Punctuation (Ps) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `﹙` `﹙` |
| CSS | `\FE59` |
| JavaScript | `\uFE59` |
| UTF-8 | EF B9 99 |
| UTF-16 | FE59 |
| Decomposition | small U+0028 |

## Related characters

- ﹘ [U+FE58 SMALL EM DASH](https://unicodekit.com/char/FE58)
- ﹚ [U+FE5A SMALL RIGHT PARENTHESIS](https://unicodekit.com/char/FE5A)
- ﹗ [U+FE57 SMALL EXCLAMATION MARK](https://unicodekit.com/char/FE57)
- ﹛ [U+FE5B SMALL LEFT CURLY BRACKET](https://unicodekit.com/char/FE5B)
- ﹖ [U+FE56 SMALL QUESTION MARK](https://unicodekit.com/char/FE56)
- ﹜ [U+FE5C SMALL RIGHT CURLY BRACKET](https://unicodekit.com/char/FE5C)
- ﹕ [U+FE55 SMALL COLON](https://unicodekit.com/char/FE55)
- ﹝ [U+FE5D SMALL LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET](https://unicodekit.com/char/FE5D)
- ﹔ [U+FE54 SMALL SEMICOLON](https://unicodekit.com/char/FE54)
- ﹞ [U+FE5E SMALL RIGHT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET](https://unicodekit.com/char/FE5E)
- ﹟ [U+FE5F SMALL NUMBER SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/FE5F)
- ﹒ [U+FE52 SMALL FULL STOP](https://unicodekit.com/char/FE52)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/FE59 · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/FE59