Fullwidth Left Parenthesis Fullwidth Opening Parenthesis is the Unicode character （ at codepoint U+FF08 in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Fullwidth Left Parenthesis Fullwidth Opening Parenthesis
To use the Fullwidth Left Parenthesis Fullwidth Opening Parenthesis symbol (（) in HTML, insert the
entity （ directly into your markup. The decimal entity （ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\FF08';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\uFF08' evaluates to （. In Python source, write '\uFF08'.
The character encodes to EF BC 88 as UTF-8 bytes and FF08 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 65288.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.