This character is a Open Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as opening curly bracket (1.0) and left brace.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is mirrored into Glyph for U+007DRight Curly Bracket. U+007B prohibits a line break after it. The glyph can be confused with 2 other glyphs.
The CLDR project calls this character “open curly bracket” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: brace, bracket, curly, gullwing, open.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
123
UTF-8
7B
UTF-16
00 7B
UTF-32
00 00 00 7B
URL-Quoted
%7B
HTML hex reference
{
HTML named entity
{
HTML named entity
{
alias
opening curly bracket (1.0)
alias
left brace
Encoding: ASCII (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes)
43
Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP737 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP775 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP852 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP855 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP860 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP861 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP865 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP866 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP874 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP1006 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes)
48
Encoding: CP1125 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP1251 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO8859_2 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO8859_3 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO8859_4 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO8859_5 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO8859_6 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO8859_7 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO8859_10 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO8859_11 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO8859_13 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO8859_14 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO8859_15 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: ISO8859_16 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: KOI8_R (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: KOI8_U (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: MAC_CYRILLIC (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: PTCP154 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
7B
Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP1025 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes)
43
Encoding: CP1123 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP1141 (hex bytes)
43
Encoding: CP1142 (hex bytes)
9C
Encoding: CP1143 (hex bytes)
43
Encoding: CP1144 (hex bytes)
44
Encoding: CP1145 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes)
51
Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes)
8E
Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes)
43
Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes)
9C
Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes)
43
Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes)
44
Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes)
51
Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP833 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP838 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP870 (hex bytes)
C0
Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes)
8E
Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes)
C0
LATEX
\lbrace
AGL: Latin-1
braceleft
AGL: Latin-2
braceleft
AGL: Latin-3
braceleft
AGL: Latin-4
braceleft
AGL: Latin-5
braceleft
Adobe Glyph List
braceleft
digraph
(!
RFC 5137
\u'007B'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u007B
C and C++
\u007B
C#
\u007B
CSS
\00007B
Excel
=UNICHAR(123)
Go
\u007B
JavaScript
\u007B
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{7b}
JSON
\u007B
Java
\u007B
Lua
\u{7B}
Matlab
char(123)
Perl
"\x{7B}"
PHP
\u{7b}
PostgreSQL
U&'\007B'
PowerShell
`u{7B}
Python
\u007B
Ruby
\u{7b}
Rust
\u{7b}
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