Unicode character information
Left curly bracket
Displayed on your computer as: {
(if the character is not rendered properly, you may not have the appropriate fonts)
Alternative names:
- brace, opening
- Bracket, left curly
- bracket, opening curly
- Curly bracket, left
- curly bracket, opening
- Left curly bracket
- opening brace
- opening curly bracket
Codepoint (decimal): 123
In unicode block: Basic Latin
Html entities:
{ or {Character input:
There is no universal input system for Unicode characters. But you can use the system-specific input methods below.| Windows: | Hold down Alt and press + on the numeric keyboard. Type: 007B and release Alt. A registry key needs to be enabled for this to work. See Unicode input (wikipedia) for more details. |
| Linux: | Hold down Ctrl and ⇧ Shift and type U007B. Now press ↵ Enter and release Ctrl and ⇧ Shift. |
Other Infos:
General category: Ps (Open_Punctuation): An opening punctuation mark (of a pair).Bidirectional class: ON (Other_Neutral): Most other symbols and punctuation marks.
Canonical combining class: 0 (Not_Reordered): Spacing and enclosing marks; also many vowel and consonant signs, even if nonspacing.