FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS character

FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS
U+FF08
65288
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FULLWIDTH OPENING PARENTHESIS
Ps (Open Punctuation)
ON (Other Neutrals)
Y
0
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS is an opening punctuation mark (of a pair) from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS is Other Neutrals (Neutral). It belongs to the neutrals. Whitespace and punctuation, which take on the directionality of the surrounding text..

The Other Neutral (ON) bidi class includes characters that do not have a strong directional preference and can appear in any text context without influencing the overall directionality. These characters include punctuation marks, symbols, and various other text elements that do not fit into more specific bidi classes.

Open Punctuation (Ps) refers to punctuation marks that are used to open a section of text, such as parentheses, brackets, and braces. These characters are paired with closing punctuation to enclose parts of text.

This character belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block. The Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block contains characters that are variants of standard characters, designed to be used in East Asian typography. Halfwidth forms are narrower versions of characters, while fullwidth forms are wider, designed to fit the grid layout used in East Asian text. This block is essential for proper rendering of text in languages like Japanese and Chinese, where halfwidth and fullwidth characters are commonly used in digital typography to achieve the desired visual effect..