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Right Parenthesis
- Unicode
- U+0029
- Category
- Punctuation
- HTML Entity
- )
- CSS
- \0029
The right (closing) parenthesis ends what ( opened; an unclosed bracket leaves the reader, or the compiler, waiting. A full stop goes inside the parentheses only when the whole sentence is inside them. After a number or letter a lone ) marks list items (1), a)), and in chat it is the smiling mouth of :) — Russian-speaking users often drop the eyes and type just ) or ))) to smile, and the mirrored ( for a frown.
On US and UK keyboards ) is Shift+0. On iPhone it is on the 123 page, on Android on the ?123 page. Many messengers turn :) into an emoji automatically; type it in a code block or switch off emoji replacement to keep the characters.
On US and UK keyboards ) is Shift+0. On iPhone it is on the 123 page, on Android on the ?123 page. Many messengers turn :) into an emoji automatically; type it in a code block or switch off emoji replacement to keep the characters.
How to Type
- Windows
- Shift+0 · Alt+41
- macOS
- Shift+0
- Linux
- Shift+0 · Ctrl+Shift+U 29
- HTML
- )
In Programming
The closing parenthesis ends every function call, parameter list and grouped expression that ( opened; editors highlight the matching pair, and a missing ) often surfaces as an error several lines later. In regular expressions it closes a group, in a Bash case statement each pattern ends with one (start) … ;;), and (() => { … })() is the shape of an immediately invoked function in JavaScript.
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