U+207D · Opening punctuation
Superscript Left Parenthesis Symbol ⁽
⁽ is superscript left parenthesis, U+207D. Unicode records it as a compatibility form of ( (super form). It was added in Unicode 1.1, and Unicode files it under Opening punctuation.
Also known as
Unicode 1.0 called this character superscript opening parenthesis. The standard renamed it later, but documents, fonts and font-editing tools from that era still use the old name.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+207D | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ⁽ | |
| HTML decimal | ⁽ | |
| CSS | \207D | |
| JavaScript | \u{207D} | |
| Python | \U0000207D | |
| Java / C# | \u207D | |
| Rust | \u{207d} | |
| Swift | \u{207D} | |
| PHP | \u{207D} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%81%BD | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 81 BD | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 207D | |
| Base64 | 4oG9 | |
| Decimal | 8317 | |
| Decomposes to | ( (super form) | |
| Category | Opening punctuation (Ps) | |
| Introduced | Unicode 1.1 | |
Will ⁽ survive being pasted?
- Normalisation. No. Anything that applies NFKC — search indexes, usernames, domain names, programming identifiers — rewrites ⁽ as
(. Safe for display, not for storage. - Legacy encodings. ⁽ is Unicode-only — it has no Latin-1 equivalent, so a system stuck on an 8-bit encoding cannot represent it.
- Size. 3 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.
Other parenthesis characters
Unicode names 13 characters ending in “parenthesis”. They differ by direction, weight or decoration rather than by meaning.
Nearby in Superscripts and Subscripts
Raised and lowered digits and a handful of letters, as single characters rather than as formatting. Useful precisely where formatting is unavailable — filenames, usernames, plain-text fields — though the alphabet is incomplete and always has been.
How to type ⁽
| Windows | Type 207D then press Alt+X |
|---|---|
| macOS | Press Ctrl+Cmd+Space, then search for “superscript left parenthesis” |
| Linux | Press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 207d, press Enter |
| HTML | ⁽ |
About Unicode’s Opening punctuation category
This is an opening bracket. Editors that highlight matching pairs, and bidirectional text algorithms, both key off this category rather than off the glyph.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I type the ⁽ superscript left parenthesis symbol?
- On Windows, type 207D and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 207d. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
- What is the code for ⁽?
- Superscript Left Parenthesis is U+207D. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
- Will ⁽ survive being pasted anywhere?
- Not always. Superscript Left Parenthesis is a compatibility character: any system that applies Unicode NFKC normalisation — search indexes, usernames, identifiers — replaces it with (. Use it for display, not where text is normalised.