curly bracket

English

Noun

curly bracket (plural curly brackets)

Either { or }, having various uses in math, music, computer programming and chemistry.

Synonyms

accolade, brace, curly brace, hooked bracket, mustache, squiggly, pregnant parentheses

Hypernyms

bracket

Derived terms

curly-bracket language

Translations

either of the two characters: “{” and “}”

Albanian: kllapa gjarpërore f
Assamese: মাজু বন্ধনী (mazu bondhoni)
Belarusian: фігу́рная ду́жка f (fihúrnaja dúžka)
Bulgarian: голя́ма ско́ба f (goljáma skóba)
Catalan: clau (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 波形括號／波形括号 (bōxíng kuòhào)
Czech: složená závorka f
Danish: tuborgklamme c, tuborgparentes c, krøllet parentes c, akkolade c, tuborg c
Dutch: accolade (nl)
Esperanto: kuniga krampo, kurba krampo, vinkulo
Finnish: aaltosulje (fi), aaltosulku (fi), aaltosulkumerkki
French: accolade (fr) f
German: geschweifte Klammer f, Schweifklammer f
Greek: μύστακας (el) m (mýstakas), άγκιστρο (el) n (ágkistro)
Hungarian: kapcsos zárójel (hu)
Indonesian: kurawal (id), kurung kurawal (id)
Irish: lúibín slabhrach m
Italian: parentesi graffa, graffa (it)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: голема заграда f (golema zagrada)
Malay: tanda kurung dakap
Polish: klamra (pl) f, nawias klamrowy m
Portuguese: chave (pt) f, chaveta (pt) f (mathematics), colchete (pt) m
Romanian: acoladă (ro) f
Russian: фигу́рная ско́бка f (figúrnaja skóbka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: vitičasta zagrada f
Slovak: zložená zátvorka f
Spanish: llave (es) f
Swedish: klammerparentes (sv) c, måsvingeparentes c, krullparentes (sv) c, måsvinge (sv) c
Thai: ปีกกา (th) (bpìik-gaa)
Turkish: küme parantezi
Ukrainian: фігу́рна ду́жка f (fihúrna dúžka)
Vietnamese: dấu ngoặc nhọn (vi)
Welsh: bach cyrliog m

curly bracket

English

Noun

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading