Small Left Parenthesis Small Opening Parenthesis is the Unicode character ﹙ at codepoint U+FE59 in the Small Form Variants 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 Small Left Parenthesis Small Opening Parenthesis
To use the Small Left Parenthesis Small 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: '\FE59';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\uFE59' evaluates to ﹙. In Python source, write '\uFE59'.
The character encodes to EF B9 99 as UTF-8 bytes and FE59 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 65113.
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.