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{ U+007B, {
LEFT CURLY BRACKET
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[U+007A]
Basic Latin |
[U+007C]
See also: } and { }

Translingual

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Punctuation mark

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{

  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

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This symbol is also called a "left brace".

Derived terms

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See also

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References

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  • 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.