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Technical information

Symbol{
NameLeft curly bracket
Unicode numberU+007B
CategoryASCII Table8. ASCII punctuation and symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character {, or U+007B, is known as the "Left Curly Bracket". It is part of the "Basic Latin" block, which is the standard ASCII set of characters used in English and other Western languages. This character falls under the "Punctuation, Open" category. Visually, it represents an opening or left-sided curly bracket, also known as a brace. Left Curly Brackets are used in many contexts, including mathematics, where they are often used to denote a set of elements. In computer programming languages, they typically denote the beginning of a block of code. They are also used in literature and linguistic notation for various purposes. As with other characters, the specific usage of the Left Curly Bracket can depend on its context.

Encoding

HTML Entity{
HTML Entity (hex){
HTML Entity (named){
URL Escape Code%7B
UTF-8 (hex)0x7B
UTF-8 (binary)01111011
UTF-160x007B
UTF-320x0000007B

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u007B"
CSS Code\007B
JavaScript"\u007B"
Perl\x{007B}
Python 2u"\u007B"
Python 3\u007B
Ruby\u{007B}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this { in sentence and in bold like this { and in italic like this {.

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
{
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
{
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#123;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\007B";
}

The symbol in different fonts

{
-apple-system
{
Apple Color Emoji
{
Arial
{
BlinkMacSystemFont
{
Courier New
{
Georgia
{
Droid Sans
{
Helvetica
{
Noto Sans
{
Oxygen
{
Roboto
{
"Segoe UI"
{
sans-serif
{
Segoe UI Emoji
{
Segoe UI Symbol
{
system-ui
{
Times New Roman
{
Ubuntu
{
Verdana

References