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{ U+007B, { LEFT CURLY BRACKET ← z [U+007A] Basic Latin | → [U+007C]

Character variations

﹛ U+FE5B, ﹛ SMALL LEFT CURLY BRACKET ← ﹚ [U+FE5A] Small Form Variants ﹜ → [U+FE5C]

｛ U+FF5B, ｛ FULLWIDTH LEFT CURLY BRACKET ← ｚ [U+FF5A] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｜ → [U+FF5C]

⎧ U+23A7, ⎧ LEFT CURLY BRACKET UPPER HOOK ← ⎦ [U+23A6] Miscellaneous Technical ⎨ → [U+23A8]

⎨ U+23A8, ⎨ LEFT CURLY BRACKET MIDDLE PIECE ← ⎧ [U+23A7] Miscellaneous Technical ⎩ → [U+23A9]

⎩ U+23A9, ⎩ LEFT CURLY BRACKET LOWER HOOK ← ⎨ [U+23A8] Miscellaneous Technical ⎪ → [U+23AA]

See also: } and { }

Translingual

Punctuation mark

{

1. Used to add a comment to the left of and encompassing one or more lines, or to indicate that items to the right are subdivisions of the item on the left. Compare }.

              ⎧ legislature

   government ⎨ executive

              ⎩ judiciary

2. Used in { }.
3. Used to start an array literal in mathematics.

   {3, 6} is an array of two integers (e.g. coordinates), while {5, 2, 7, 6, 2} is an array of five integers.

Usage notes

This symbol is also called a "left brace".

Derived terms

• :{
• :-{

Related terms

• }

See also

• Bracket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Thomas F. Adams, Typographia; Or, The Printer's Instructor: A Brief Sketch: Braces stand before, and keep together, such articles as are of the same import, and are sub-divisions of the preceding articles. They sometimes stand after, and keep together, such articles as make above one line, and have [...] posts after them, which are justified to answer to the middle of the brace. The bracing side of a brace is always turned to that part of an article which makes the most lines.