Unicode Character "{" U+007B Left Curly Bracket

Unicode Version 15.1

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Summary

The unicode character "{" at code point U+007B is Left Curly Bracket. It is a character in the Basic Latin block and is part of the Common script. The character is an open punctuation. The UTF-8 encoding of "{" is 0x7B and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x007B.

General Properties

Code Point U+007B
Version Added 1.1
Name Left Curly Bracket
Unicode 1.0 Name Opening Curly Bracket
Block Basic Latin
General Category Open Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral
Mirrored Yes
Mirrored Character "}" U+007D Right Curly Bracket
Bidirectional Paired Bracket Type Open
Bidirectional Paired Bracket "}" U+007D Right Curly Bracket

Encodings

HTML Entity {
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HTML Decimal Encoding {
HTML Hex Encoding {
UTF-8 Encoding 0x7B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x007B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000007B
C/C++/Java Escape \u007b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Open Punctuation
East Asian Width Narrow
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Close