Square brackets

Japanese: かぎかっこ
Square brackets

…Circles are called full stops, and points are called reading points. In addition to <maru> and <ten>, there are also <nakaten> (example of usage: noun/pronoun money supply), <parentheses> (( )), <square brackets> (「 」), and even <connecting marks> ( = ) and <connecting marks> ( ‐ ). As for the use of these marks (called punctuation), apart from the full stops used to separate sentences, there are no established orthographic standards, as there are for kana. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "quotation marks" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…まるを句点,てんを読(とう)点という。〈まる〉や〈てん〉のほかに,〈なかてん〉(使い方の例:名詞・代名詞 マネー・サプライ),〈かっこ〉(( )),〈かぎかっこ〉(「 」),さらに,〈つなぎ〉( = ),〈つなぎてん〉( ‐ )などがある。これらの符号の使い方(これを句読法という)については,文と文の切れめに用いる句点のほかは,かなづかいのように,正書法としての基準は確立していない。…

※「かぎかっこ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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