Left Parenthesis
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 40 on the numeric keypad to insert left parenthesis.
- Alt code
- Alt+40
- HTML entity
- (
- Unicode
- U+0028
About this symbol
The scholar Erasmus called the round brackets lunulae, little moons, for their shape. They came into use in the late fourteenth century, and British English calls them brackets, American English parentheses.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LEFT PARENTHESIS
- Also called
- Opening parenthesis (1.0)
- Type
- Opening bracket
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.