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See also: :), ( ), ◌᪻, and ◌᪽

) U+0029, ) RIGHT PARENTHESIS ← ( [U+0028] Basic Latin * → [U+002A]

Character variations

⁾ U+207E, ⁾ SUPERSCRIPT RIGHT PARENTHESIS ← ⁽ [U+207D] Superscripts and Subscripts ⁿ → [U+207F]

₎ U+208E, ₎ SUBSCRIPT RIGHT PARENTHESIS [unassigned: U+208F] ← ₍ [U+208D] Superscripts and Subscripts ₐ → [U+2090]

⎞ U+239E, ⎞ RIGHT PARENTHESIS UPPER HOOK ← ⎝ [U+239D] Miscellaneous Technical ⎟ → [U+239F]

⎟ U+239F, ⎟ RIGHT PARENTHESIS EXTENSION ← ⎞ [U+239E] Miscellaneous Technical ⎠ → [U+23A0]

⎠ U+23A0, ⎠ RIGHT PARENTHESIS LOWER HOOK ← ⎟ [U+239F] Miscellaneous Technical ⎡ → [U+23A1]

︶ U+FE36, ︶ PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT PARENTHESIS ← ︵ [U+FE35] CJK Compatibility Forms ︷ → [U+FE37]

﹚ U+FE5A, ﹚ SMALL RIGHT PARENTHESIS ← ﹙ [U+FE59] Small Form Variants ﹛ → [U+FE5B]

） U+FF09, ） FULLWIDTH RIGHT PARENTHESIS ← （ [U+FF08] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ＊ → [U+FF0A]

｠ U+FF60, ｠ FULLWIDTH RIGHT WHITE PARENTHESIS ← ｟ [U+FF5F] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｡ → [U+FF61]

⦆ U+2986, ⦆ RIGHT WHITE PARENTHESIS ← ⦅ [U+2985] Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B ⦇ → [U+2987]

Translingual

Punctuation mark

)

1. Represents a mouth vertically aligned, in order to form emoticons.
3. Separates a letter or number from an item in a list.

   Synonym: .

   Near-synonym: ( )

   A) New York, B) London, C) Paris.

   a) New York, b) London, c) Paris.

   1) New York, 2) London, 3) Paris.

   I) New York, II) London, III) Paris.

   • 2024 September 21, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short N' Sweet' Tour”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[1] (in English):

     Whether a specific moment in pop culture history—i.e. Madonna at the VMAs—or a callback to an iconic style decade—her '70s curtain bangs or '50s-style swimwear from the "Espresso" music video—these looks are A) easy to recreate and B) so wearable for repeated use after your tour date has come and gone.

4. Used in ( ).
   • 2025 April, “Can AI Change Your View? Evidence from a Large-Scale Online Field Experiment”, in University of Zurich‎^[2] (in English), page 1:

     Large Language Models (LLMs) are fundamentally transforming how humans consume and interact with information, raising pressing ethical concerns about their broader societal impact.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:(.

Symbol

)

1. (mathematics) Denotes an open endpoint of an interval.

   $[a,b)=\{x\in \mathbb {R} \,|\,a\leq x<b\}$

Synonyms

• [

See also

• toi (Lojban)

Punctuation

• apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
• curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
• square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
• colon ( : )
• comma ( , )
• dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
• ellipsis ( … )
• exclamation mark ( ! )
• fraction slash ( ⁄ )
• guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
• hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
• interpunct ( · )
• interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
• brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
• full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
• question mark ( ? )
• quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
• quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
• semicolon ( ; )
• slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
• space ( ] [ )

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ).

Punctuation mark

)

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) :-), expressing happiness or amusement.

Usage notes

The methods in using ) as an Internet slang expression in Azerbaijani are similar to that in Russian and Ukrainian.

Generally, the number of brackets may vary, but it can also be just one bracket at the end of a sentence.

Chinese

Punctuation mark

)

1. used in ( )

Japanese

Punctuation mark

)

1. Used in ( ).

Russian

Etymology

Evolved from :-). In the Russian keyboard layout, one has to press Shift+6 to type a colon, which is deemed inconvenient, particularly in instant messaging, as it requires both hands, resulting in the decline of :-).

Punctuation mark

)

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) :-), expressing happiness or amusement.

Usage notes

Usage of multiple brackets is used to emphasize the laughter or humor, but it may also suggest an ironic or sarcastic tone. Multiple brackets with zeroes - )0 or (9 - are used similarly to !1, implying that shift key was released, expressing an emphasis. ")))" is not to be confused with ((( ))), known as a far-right symbol directed against Jewish people.

Antonyms

• ( (online slang, expression of sadness or disappointment)

Related terms

• ))) (online slang, expression of laughter)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: )