What is the difference between Musical Symbol Brace and Left Curly Bracket?

Musical Symbol Brace is U+1D114 in the Musical Symbols block. Left Curly Bracket is U+007B in the Basic Latin block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Musical Symbol Brace?

The HTML entity for Musical Symbol Brace (U+1D114) is 𝄔.

What is the HTML entity for Left Curly Bracket?

The HTML entity for Left Curly Bracket (U+007B) is {.

Are Musical Symbol Brace and Left Curly Bracket the same Unicode character?

No. Musical Symbol Brace is U+1D114 (decimal 119060) and Left Curly Bracket is U+007B (decimal 123). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Musical Symbol Brace and Left Curly Bracket?

Musical Symbol Brace (U+1D114) encodes as F0 9D 84 94 in UTF-8. Left Curly Bracket (U+007B) encodes as 7B in UTF-8.

Musical Symbol Brace vs Left Curly Bracket

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

𝄔

Musical Symbol Brace

U+1D114

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{

Left Curly Bracket

U+007B

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Property Comparison

Property	Musical Symbol Brace	Left Curly Bracket
Codepoint	`U+1D114`	`U+007B`
Decimal	`119060`	`123`
HTML Entity	`𝄔`	`{`
HTML Decimal	`𝄔`	`{`
HTML Hex	`𝄔`	`{`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 84 94`	`7B`
UTF-16	`D8 34 DD 14`	`00 7B`
UTF-32	`0001D114`	`0000007B`
CSS Escape	`\1D114`	`\7B`
JS Escape	`\uD834\uDD14`	`\u007B`
Python Escape	`\U0001D114`	`\u007B`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%84%94`	`%7B`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Open Punctuation (Ps)`
Block	`Musical Symbols`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`L`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`3.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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