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U+FF08 CHARACTER

FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS

Quick Facts

Unicode Name FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS
Code Point U+FF08
Decimal Value 65288
General Category Open Punctuation (Ps) →
Unicode Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes EF BC 88
UTF-16 Code Unit FF08
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000FF08
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: FF 08 LE: 08 FF
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 FF 08 LE: 08 FF 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal (
HTML Hexadecimal (
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00FF08
JavaScript (ES6) \uFF08
JavaScript (UTF-16) \uFF08
JSON Escape \uFF08
Python \uFF08
PHP "\u{FF08}"
Java "\uFF08"
C / C++ "\uFF08"
Rust '\u{ff08}'
URL Percent-Encoded %EF%BC%88

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition <wide> 0028 wide
NFC / NFD Forms Compatibility decomposition (<wide>): NFKD/NFKC normalize to equivalent base characters.

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored Yes (Mirrored in RTL contexts)

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+FF08 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
Context: A ( Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
Context: A ( Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
Context: A ( Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
Context: A ( Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+FF08

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