U+2985 LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS

The Unicode character U+2985, officially named LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS, was introduced in Unicode version 3.2. It is part of the Misc Math Symbols B block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Open Punctuation, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has narrow in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains mirrored regardless of the reading direction.