U+FF5F FULLWIDTH LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS

The Unicode character U+FF5F, officially named FULLWIDTH LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS, was introduced in Unicode version 3.2. It is part of the Half And Full Forms 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 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.