Left Curly Bracket
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 123 on the numeric keypad to insert left curly bracket.
- Alt code
- Alt+123
- HTML entity
- {
- Unicode
- U+007B
About this symbol
Curly brackets, or braces, group items in maths, such as the set {1, 2, 3}. The C programming language used them in the early 1970s to group lines of code, and many later languages followed.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LEFT CURLY BRACKET
- Also called
- Opening curly bracket (1.0), Left brace
- Type
- Opening bracket
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.