U+FF08 FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS

The Unicode character U+FF08, officially named FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Half And Full Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as FULLWIDTH OPENING PARENTHESIS.

Categorized technically as a Open Punctuation, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is Unknown and has fullwidth 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.