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vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Chemistry"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1.7</span> <span>Chemistry</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Chemistry-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Square_brackets" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Square_brackets"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Square brackets</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Square_brackets-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Square brackets subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Square_brackets-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Uses_of_[_]" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Uses_of_[_]"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Uses of [ ]</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Uses_of_[_]-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Proofreading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Proofreading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.1</span> <span>Proofreading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Proofreading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Law" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Law"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.2</span> <span>Law</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Law-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Square_brackets_in_mathematics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Square_brackets_in_mathematics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.3</span> <span>Square brackets in mathematics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Square_brackets_in_mathematics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Chemistry_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Chemistry_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.4</span> <span>Chemistry</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Chemistry_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Square_brackets_in_programming_languages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Square_brackets_in_programming_languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.5</span> <span>Square brackets in programming languages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Square_brackets_in_programming_languages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Double_brackets_⟦_⟧" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Double_brackets_⟦_⟧"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Double brackets ⟦ ⟧</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Double_brackets_⟦_⟧-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Lenticular_brackets【】" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lenticular_brackets【】"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Lenticular brackets【】</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Lenticular_brackets【】-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Floor_⌊_⌋_and_ceiling_⌈_⌉_corner_brackets" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Floor_⌊_⌋_and_ceiling_⌈_⌉_corner_brackets"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Floor ⌊ ⌋ and ceiling ⌈ ⌉ corner brackets</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Floor_⌊_⌋_and_ceiling_⌈_⌉_corner_brackets-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Quine_corners_⌜⌝_and_half_brackets_⸤_⸥_or_⸢_⸣" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Quine_corners_⌜⌝_and_half_brackets_⸤_⸥_or_⸢_⸣"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>Quine corners ⌜⌝ and half brackets ⸤ ⸥ or ⸢ ⸣</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Quine_corners_⌜⌝_and_half_brackets_⸤_⸥_or_⸢_⸣-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Brackets_with_quills_⁅_⁆" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Brackets_with_quills_⁅_⁆"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6</span> <span>Brackets with quills ⁅ ⁆</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Brackets_with_quills_⁅_⁆-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Curly_brackets" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Curly_brackets"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Curly brackets</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Curly_brackets-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Curly brackets subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Curly_brackets-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Uses_of_{_}" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Uses_of_{_}"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Uses of { }</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Uses_of_{_}-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Music" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Music"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.1</span> <span>Music</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Music-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Chemistry_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Chemistry_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.2</span> <span>Chemistry</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Chemistry_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Curly_brackets_in_programming_languages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Curly_brackets_in_programming_languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.3</span> <span>Curly brackets in programming languages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Curly_brackets_in_programming_languages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Curly_brackets_in_mathematics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Curly_brackets_in_mathematics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.4</span> <span>Curly brackets in mathematics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Curly_brackets_in_mathematics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Angle_brackets" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Angle_brackets"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Angle brackets</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Angle_brackets-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Angle brackets subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Angle_brackets-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Shape" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Shape"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Shape</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Shape-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Uses_of_⟨_⟩" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Uses_of_⟨_⟩"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Uses of ⟨ ⟩</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Uses_of_⟨_⟩-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Angle_brackets_in_mathematics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Angle_brackets_in_mathematics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2.1</span> <span>Angle brackets in mathematics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Angle_brackets_in_mathematics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Physics_and_mechanics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Physics_and_mechanics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2.2</span> <span>Physics and mechanics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Physics_and_mechanics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Angle_brackets_in_programming_languages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Angle_brackets_in_programming_languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2.3</span> <span>Angle brackets in programming languages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Angle_brackets_in_programming_languages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Unicode" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Unicode"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Unicode</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Unicode-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle References subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.1</span> <span>Sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" 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hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Дужкі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B0" title="Скоба – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Скоба" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klammer_(Zeichen)" title="Klammer (Zeichen) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Klammer (Zeichen)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%C4%83%D0%BB%C4%83%D0%BF%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Хăлăпка – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Хăлăпка" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A1vorky" title="Závorky – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Závorky" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parentes" title="Parentes – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Parentes" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klammer_(Zeichen)" title="Klammer (Zeichen) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Klammer (Zeichen)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampo_(interpunkcio)" title="Krampo (interpunkcio) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Krampo (interpunkcio)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8_(%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%E2%80%8C%DA%AF%D8%B0%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%86)" title="قلاب (نشان‌گذاری متن) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="قلاب (نشان‌گذاری متن)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heakje" title="Heakje – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Heakje" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%A9nteses" title="Parénteses – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Parénteses" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%95%E0%AB%8C%E0%AA%82%E0%AA%B8" title="કૌંસ – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="કૌંસ" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ગુજરાતી</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xal mw-list-item"><a href="https://xal.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8B%D1%80" title="Хавсыр – Kalmyk" lang="xal" hreflang="xal" data-title="Хавсыр" data-language-autonym="Хальмг" data-language-local-name="Kalmyk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Хальмг</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B4%84%ED%98%B8" title="괄호 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="괄호" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%93%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%A3%D5%AE%D5%A5%D6%80" title="Փակագծեր – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Փակագծեր" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A0%E0%A4%95" title="कोष्ठक – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="कोष्ठक" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagrade" title="Zagrade – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Zagrade" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampono" title="Krampono – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Krampono" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanda_kurung" title="Tanda kurung – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Tanda kurung" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parentesi" title="Parentesi – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Parentesi" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D" title="סוגריים – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סוגריים" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A4%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A9%E1%83%AE%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98_(%E1%83%9E%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A5%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A3%E1%83%90%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%90)" title="ფრჩხილები (პუნქტუაცია) – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ფრჩხილები (პუნქტუაცია)" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D2%9B%D1%88%D0%B0" title="Жақша – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Жақша" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabano" title="Mabano – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Mabano" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthesis" title="Parenthesis – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Parenthesis" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iekavas" title="Iekavas – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Iekavas" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klamer" title="Klamer – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Klamer" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skliausteliai" title="Skliausteliai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Skliausteliai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A1r%C3%B3jel" title="Zárójel – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Zárójel" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0" title="Заграда – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Заграда" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonon-teny_mahitsy" title="Fonon-teny mahitsy – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Fonon-teny mahitsy" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%82_(%E0%B4%9A%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B9%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%82)" title="വലയം (ചിഹ്നനം) – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="വലയം (ചിഹ്നനം)" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haakje" title="Haakje – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Haakje" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A0%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A8" title="कोष्ठक चिह्न – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="कोष्ठक चिह्न" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8B%AC%E5%BC%A7" title="括弧 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="括弧" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parentes" title="Parentes – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Parentes" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parentes" title="Parentes – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Parentes" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qavs" title="Qavs – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Qavs" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%A0" title="ਕੋਸ਼ਠ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਕੋਸ਼ਠ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawias" title="Nawias – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Nawias" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%AAntese_reto" title="Parêntese reto – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Parêntese reto" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parantez%C4%83" title="Paranteză – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Paranteză" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Скобки – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Скобки" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-skr mw-list-item"><a href="https://skr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86" title="قوسین – Saraiki" lang="skr" hreflang="skr" data-title="قوسین" data-language-autonym="سرائیکی" data-language-local-name="Saraiki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سرائیکی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kllapa" title="Kllapa – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Kllapa" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket" title="Bracket – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Bracket" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%8F%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86" title="ڏنگيون – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="ڏنگيون" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A1tvorka_(interpunk%C4%8Dn%C3%A9_znamienko)" title="Zátvorka (interpunkčné znamienko) – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Zátvorka (interpunkčné znamienko)" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklepaj" title="Oklepaj – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Oklepaj" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagrade" title="Zagrade – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Zagrade" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagrade" title="Zagrade – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Zagrade" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulkeet" title="Sulkeet – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Sulkeet" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parentes" title="Parentes – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Parentes" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panaklong" title="Panaklong – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Panaklong" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%96%D3%99%D1%8F%D0%BB%D3%99%D1%80" title="Җәяләр – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Җәяләр" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%82%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%82%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%95" title="นขลิขิต – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="นขลิขิต" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%9A%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD" title="Қавсайн – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Қавсайн" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parantez" title="Parantez – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Parantez" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Дужки – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Дужки" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86" title="قوسین – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="قوسین" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%E1%BA%A5u_ngo%E1%BA%B7c" title="Dấu ngoặc – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Dấu ngoặc" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wa mw-list-item"><a href="https://wa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85tchete_(tipografeye)" title="Åtchete (tipografeye) – Walloon" lang="wa" hreflang="wa" data-title="Åtchete (tipografeye)" data-language-autonym="Walon" 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text-align: center;">Square brackets (BE)<br /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">or</span><br />brackets (AE)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </th> <th style="padding:0.2em; text-align: center;">Braces (BE&amp;AE)<br /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">or</span><br />curly brackets (BE)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </th> <th style="padding:0.2em; text-align: center;">Angle brackets (BE&amp;AE)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><br /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">or</span><br />chevrons&#32;<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </th></tr></tbody></table></div></th></tr></tbody></table> <p>A <b>bracket</b> is either of two tall fore- or back-facing <a href="/wiki/Punctuation" title="Punctuation">punctuation</a> marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between <a href="/wiki/British_English" title="British English">British</a> and <a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">American English</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">(</span>...<span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">)</span> marks and in American English the <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">[</span>...<span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">]</span> marks.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other minor bracket shapes exist, such as (for example) <i>slash</i> or <i>diagonal</i> brackets used by linguists to enclose <a href="/wiki/Phonemes" class="mw-redirect" title="Phonemes">phonemes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPeters2007101_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeters2007101-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket",<sup id="cite_ref-unicode-9_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unicode-9-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> respectively, depending on the <a href="/wiki/Writing_system#Directionality" title="Writing system">directionality</a> of the context. </p><p>In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of <a href="/wiki/Grammar" title="Grammar">grammar</a>, brackets <a href="/wiki/Nesting_(computing)" title="Nesting (computing)">nest</a>, with segments of bracketed material containing embedded within them other further bracketed sub-segments.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The number of opening brackets matches the number of closing brackets in such cases.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_mathematical_symbols#Brackets" title="Glossary of mathematical symbols">Various forms of brackets are used in mathematics</a>, with specific mathematical meanings, often for denoting specific <a href="/wiki/Function_(mathematics)" title="Function (mathematics)">mathematical functions</a> and <a href="/wiki/Subformula" class="mw-redirect" title="Subformula">subformulas</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Angle brackets or <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chevron" class="extiw" title="wikt:chevron">chevrons</a> <b>⟨&#160;⟩</b> were the earliest type of bracket to appear in <a href="/wiki/Written_English" class="mw-redirect" title="Written English">written English</a>. <a href="/wiki/Desiderius_Erasmus" class="mw-redirect" title="Desiderius Erasmus">Erasmus</a> coined the term <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">lunula</i></span> to refer to the round brackets or <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parenthesis" class="extiw" title="wikt:parenthesis">parentheses</a> <b>(<span class="nowrap">&#160;</span>)</b> recalling the shape of the <a href="/wiki/Crescent" title="Crescent">crescent moon</a> (<a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">luna</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most typewriters only had the left and right parentheses. 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text-transform: lowercase;">FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FF09</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xff09;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">FULLWIDTH RIGHT PARENTHESIS</span></li></ul></dd></dl> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div><a href="/wiki/Arabic_script" title="Arabic script">Arabic script</a><br />(Quranic quotations)<sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Arabic_Presentation_Forms_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Arabic_Presentation_Forms-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FD3E</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfd3e;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">ORNATE LEFT PARENTHESIS</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FD3F</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfd3f;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">ORNATE RIGHT PARENTHESIS</span> </li></ul> </div> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div><a href="/wiki/Mediaeval_studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediaeval studies">Mediaeval studies</a><sup id="cite_ref-General_Punctuation_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-General_Punctuation-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Supplemental_Punctuation_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Supplemental_Punctuation-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E28</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e28;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E29</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e29;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS</span> </li></ul> </div> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>Technical<sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Superscripts_and_Subscripts_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Superscripts_and_Subscripts-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-A_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-A-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-B_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-B-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+207D</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x207d;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SUPERSCRIPT LEFT PARENTHESIS</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+207E</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x207e;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SUPERSCRIPT RIGHT PARENTHESIS</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+208D</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x208d;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SUBSCRIPT LEFT PARENTHESIS</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+208E</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x208e;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SUBSCRIPT RIGHT PARENTHESIS</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+239B</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x239b;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT PARENTHESIS UPPER HOOK</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+239C</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x239c;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT PARENTHESIS EXTENSION</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+239D</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x239d;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT PARENTHESIS LOWER HOOK</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+239E</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x239e;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT PARENTHESIS UPPER HOOK</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+239F</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x239f;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT PARENTHESIS EXTENSION</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23A0</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23a0;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT PARENTHESIS LOWER HOOK</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23DC</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23dc;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">TOP PARENTHESIS</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;OverParenthesis;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23DD</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23dd;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BOTTOM PARENTHESIS</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;UnderParenthesis;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+27EE</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x27ee;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MATHEMATICAL LEFT FLATTENED PARENTHESIS</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+27EF</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x27ef;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MATHEMATICAL RIGHT FLATTENED PARENTHESIS</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2983</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2983;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT WHITE CURLY BRACKET</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2984</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2984;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT WHITE CURLY BRACKET</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2985</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2985;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;lopar;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2986</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2986;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT WHITE PARENTHESIS</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;ropar;</span>) </li></ul> </div> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>Phonetic punctuation<sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Phonetic_Punctuation_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Phonetic_Punctuation-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E59</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e59;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">TOP HALF LEFT PARENTHESIS</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E5A</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e5a;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">TOP HALF RIGHT PARENTHESIS</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E5B</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e5b;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BOTTOM HALF LEFT PARENTHESIS</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E5C</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e5c;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BOTTOM HALF RIGHT PARENTHESIS</span> </li></ul> </div> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div><a href="/wiki/Dingbat" title="Dingbat">Dingbats</a><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Dingbats_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Dingbats-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2768</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2768;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MEDIUM LEFT PARENTHESIS ORNAMENT</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2769</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2769;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; 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color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">(</span> and <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">)</span> are <i>parentheses</i> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="&#39;p&#39; in &#39;pie&#39;">p</span><span title="/ə/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;about&#39;">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="&#39;r&#39; in &#39;rye&#39;">r</span><span title="/ɛ/: &#39;e&#39; in &#39;dress&#39;">ɛ</span><span title="&#39;n&#39; in &#39;nigh&#39;">n</span><span title="/θ/: &#39;th&#39; in &#39;thigh&#39;">θ</span><span title="/ɪ/: &#39;i&#39; in &#39;kit&#39;">ɪ</span><span title="&#39;s&#39; in &#39;sigh&#39;">s</span><span title="/iː/: &#39;ee&#39; in &#39;fleece&#39;">iː</span><span title="&#39;z&#39; in &#39;zoom&#39;">z</span></span>/</a></span></span> (singular <i>parenthesis</i> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="&#39;p&#39; in &#39;pie&#39;">p</span><span title="/ə/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;about&#39;">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="&#39;r&#39; in &#39;rye&#39;">r</span><span title="/ɛ/: &#39;e&#39; in &#39;dress&#39;">ɛ</span><span title="&#39;n&#39; in &#39;nigh&#39;">n</span><span title="/θ/: &#39;th&#39; in &#39;thigh&#39;">θ</span><span title="/ɪ/: &#39;i&#39; in &#39;kit&#39;">ɪ</span><span title="&#39;s&#39; in &#39;sigh&#39;">s</span><span title="/ɪ/: &#39;i&#39; in &#39;kit&#39;">ɪ</span><span title="&#39;s&#39; in &#39;sigh&#39;">s</span></span>/</a></span></span>) in American English, and either <i>round brackets</i> or simply <i>brackets</i> in British English.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPeters2007101_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeters2007101-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> They are also known as "parens" <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="&#39;p&#39; in &#39;pie&#39;">p</span><span title="/ə/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;about&#39;">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="&#39;r&#39; in &#39;rye&#39;">r</span><span title="/ɛ/: &#39;e&#39; in &#39;dress&#39;">ɛ</span><span title="&#39;n&#39; in &#39;nigh&#39;">n</span><span title="&#39;z&#39; in &#39;zoom&#39;">z</span></span>/</a></span></span>, "circle brackets", or "smooth brackets". </p><p>In formal writing, "parentheses" is also used in British English.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Uses_of_(_)"><span id="Uses_of_.28_.29"></span>Uses of ( )<span class="anchor" id="Uses_of_parentheses"></span><span class="anchor" id="Uses_of_round_brackets"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Uses of ( )"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Parentheses contain <a href="/wiki/Adjunctive" class="mw-redirect" title="Adjunctive">adjunctive</a> material that serves to clarify (in the manner of a <a href="/wiki/Gloss_(annotation)" title="Gloss (annotation)">gloss</a>) or is aside from the main point.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A comma before or after the material can also be used, though if the sentence contains commas for other purposes, visual confusion may result. A <a href="/wiki/Dash" title="Dash">dash</a> before and after the material is also sometimes used. </p><p>Parentheses may be used in formal writing to add supplementary information, such as "Senator John McCain (<a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">R</a>&#160;-&#160;Arizona) spoke at length". They can also indicate shorthand for "<a href="/wiki/Uncertain_plural" title="Uncertain plural">either singular or plural</a>" for nouns, e.g. "the claim(s)". It can also be used for <a href="/wiki/Gender-neutral_language" title="Gender-neutral language">gender-neutral language</a>, especially in languages with <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_gender" title="Grammatical gender">grammatical gender</a>, e.g. "(s)he agreed with his/her physician" (the slash in the second instance, as one alternative is replacing the other, not adding to it). </p><p>Parenthetical phrases have been used extensively in informal writing and stream of consciousness literature. Examples include the southern American author <a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a> (see <i><a href="/wiki/Absalom,_Absalom!" title="Absalom, Absalom!">Absalom, Absalom!</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/The_Sound_and_the_Fury#Part_2:_June_2,_1910" title="The Sound and the Fury">the Quentin section of <i>The Sound and the Fury</i></a>) as well as poet <a href="/wiki/E._E._Cummings" title="E. E. Cummings">E. E. Cummings</a>. </p><p>Parentheses have historically been used where the <a href="/wiki/Em_dash" class="mw-redirect" title="Em dash">em dash</a> is currently used in alternatives, such as "parenthesis)(parentheses". Examples of this usage can be seen in editions of <i><a href="/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_Modern_English_Usage" title="A Dictionary of Modern English Usage">Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage</a></i>. </p><p>Parentheses may be nested (generally with one set (such as this) inside another set). This is not commonly used in formal writing (though sometimes other brackets [especially square brackets] will be used for one or more inner set of parentheses [in other words, secondary {or even tertiary} phrases can be found within the main parenthetical sentence]). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Language">Language</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Language"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Parenthesis_(rhetoric)" title="Parenthesis (rhetoric)">parenthesis in rhetoric</a> and <a href="/wiki/Linguistics" title="Linguistics">linguistics</a> refers to the entire bracketed text, not just to the enclosing marks used (so all the text in this set of round brackets may be described as "a parenthesis").<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Taking as an example the sentence "Mrs. Pennyfarthing (What? Yes, that was her name!) was my landlady.", the explanatory phrase between the parentheses is itself called a parenthesis. Again, the parenthesis implies that the meaning and flow of the bracketed phrase is supplemental to the rest of the text and the whole would be unchanged were the parenthesized sentences removed. The term refers to the syntax rather than the enclosure method: the same clause in the form "Mrs. Pennyfarthing&#160;&#8211;&#32;What? Yes, that was her name!&#160;&#8211;&#32;was my landlady" is also a parenthesis.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (In non-specialist usage, the term "parenthetical phrase" is more widely understood.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>) </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Phonetics" title="Phonetics">phonetics</a>, parentheses are used for indistinguishable<sup id="cite_ref-IPA175_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IPA175-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> or unidentified utterances. They are also seen for silent articulation (mouthing),<sup id="cite_ref-IPA191_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IPA191-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> where the expected phonetic transcription is derived from lip-reading, and with periods to indicate silent pauses, for example <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">(...)</span> or <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">(2<span class="wrap"> </span>sec)</span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Enumerations">Enumerations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Enumerations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An unpaired right parenthesis is often used as part of a label in an ordered list, such as this one: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>a) <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">educational</a> testing,<br /> b) technical writing and diagrams,<br /> c) <a href="/wiki/Market_research" title="Market research">market research</a>, and<br /> d) <a href="/wiki/Elections" class="mw-redirect" title="Elections">elections</a>. </p> </div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Accounting">Accounting</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Accounting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Traditionally in <a href="/wiki/Accounting" title="Accounting">accounting</a>, contra amounts are placed in parentheses. A debit balance account in a series of credit balances will have parenthesis and vice versa. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Parentheses_in_mathematics">Parentheses in mathematics</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Parentheses in mathematics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_mathematical_symbols#Parentheses" title="Glossary of mathematical symbols">Glossary of mathematical symbols §&#160;Parentheses</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bracket_(mathematics)" title="Bracket (mathematics)">Bracket (mathematics)</a></div> <p>Parentheses are used in <a href="/wiki/Mathematical_notation" title="Mathematical notation">mathematical notation</a> to indicate grouping, often inducing a different <a href="/wiki/Order_of_operations" title="Order of operations">order of operations</a>. For example: in the usual order of algebraic operations, <span class="texhtml">4 × 3 + 2</span> equals 14, since the <a href="/wiki/Multiplication" title="Multiplication">multiplication</a> is done before the <a href="/wiki/Addition" title="Addition">addition</a>. However, <span class="texhtml">4 × (3 + 2)</span> equals 20, because the parentheses override normal precedence, causing the addition to be done first. Some authors follow the convention in mathematical equations that, when parentheses have one level of nesting, the inner pair are parentheses and the outer pair are square brackets. Example: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r996643573">.mw-parser-output .block-indent{padding-left:3em;padding-right:0;overflow:hidden}</style><div class="block-indent"><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle [4\times (3+2)]^{2}=400.}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mo stretchy="false">[</mo> <mn>4</mn> <mo>&#x00D7;<!-- × --></mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mn>3</mn> <mo>+</mo> <mn>2</mn> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <msup> <mo stretchy="false">]</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>2</mn> </mrow> </msup> <mo>=</mo> <mn>400.</mn> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle [4\times (3+2)]^{2}=400.}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/741361d84161ff52db06b8d548c55162f3b4ff1f" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:20.558ex; height:3.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle [4\times (3+2)]^{2}=400.}"></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Parentheses_in_programming_languages">Parentheses in programming languages</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Parentheses in programming languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Parentheses are included in the syntaxes of many <a href="/wiki/Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming languages</a>. Typically needed to denote an argument; to tell the compiler what data type the Method/Function needs to look for first in order to initialise. In some cases, such as in <a href="/wiki/LISP" class="mw-redirect" title="LISP">LISP</a>, parentheses are a fundamental construct of the language. They are also often used for scoping functions and operators and for arrays. In <a href="/wiki/Syntax_diagram" title="Syntax diagram">syntax diagrams</a> they are used for grouping, such as in <a href="/wiki/Extended_Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form" title="Extended Backus–Naur form">extended Backus–Naur form</a>. </p><p>In Mathematica and the Wolfram language, parentheses are used to indicate grouping&#160;&#8211;&#32;for example, with pure anonymous functions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Taxonomy">Taxonomy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Taxonomy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>If it is desired to include the <a href="/wiki/Subgenus" title="Subgenus">subgenus</a> when giving the <a href="/wiki/Scientific_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific name">scientific name</a> of an animal species or <a href="/wiki/Subspecies" title="Subspecies">subspecies</a>, the subgenus's name is provided in parentheses between the <a href="/wiki/Generic_epithet" class="mw-redirect" title="Generic epithet">genus name</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Specific_epithet" class="mw-redirect" title="Specific epithet">specific epithet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For instance, <i>Polyphylla</i> (<i>Xerasiobia</i>) <i>alba</i> is a way to cite the species <i>Polyphylla alba</i> while also mentioning that it is in the subgenus <i>Xerasiobia</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There is also a convention of citing a subgenus by enclosing it in parentheses after its genus, e.g., <i>Polyphylla</i> (<i>Xerasiobia</i>) is a way to refer to the subgenus <i>Xerasiobia</i> within the genus <i>Polyphylla</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Parentheses are similarly used to cite a subgenus with the name of a <a href="/wiki/Prokaryotic" class="mw-redirect" title="Prokaryotic">prokaryotic</a> species, although the <a href="/wiki/International_Code_of_Nomenclature_of_Prokaryotes" title="International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes">International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes</a> (ICNP) requires the use of the abbreviation "subgen". as well, e.g., <i>Acetobacter</i> (subgen. <i>Gluconoacetobacter</i>) <i>liquefaciens</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Chemistry">Chemistry</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: Chemistry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Parentheses are used in <a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a> to denote a repeated substructure within a molecule, e.g. HC(CH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>3</sub> (<a href="/wiki/Isobutane" title="Isobutane">isobutane</a>) or, similarly, to indicate the stoichiometry of ionic compounds with such substructures: e.g. Ca(NO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub> (<a href="/wiki/Calcium_nitrate" title="Calcium nitrate">calcium nitrate</a>). </p><p>This is a notation that was pioneered by <a href="/wiki/Berzelius" class="mw-redirect" title="Berzelius">Berzelius</a>, who wanted chemical formulae to more resemble algebraic notation, with brackets enclosing groups that could be multiplied (e.g. in 3(AlO<sub>2</sub> + 2SO<sub>3</sub>) the 3 multiplies everything within the parentheses).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatts1877140–141_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatts1877140–141-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIhde1984115_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIhde1984115-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Chemical_nomenclature" title="Chemical nomenclature">chemical nomenclature</a>, parentheses are used to distinguish structural features and multipliers for clarity, for example in the polymer <a href="/wiki/Poly(methyl_methacrylate)" title="Poly(methyl methacrylate)">poly(methyl methacrylate)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:right;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Square_brackets">Square brackets<span class="anchor" id="square_bracket"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: Square brackets"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="max-width:18em;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><div style="font-size:125%; background:#ebebeb; font-weight:bold; padding:0.1em; line-height:1.2em;">Square brackets</div></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><div style="background:#ebebeb;padding:0 0 0.4em;line-height:1.2em;"> <table align="center" style="display:table;padding:0;background:transparent;width:100%"> <tbody><tr style="font-size: 300%; text-align: center; line-height: 0.01; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, &#39;Nimbus Roman No9 L&#39;, &#39;Liberation Serif&#39;, serif, georgia;"> <th style="padding:0.5em 0.1em; 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<span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">FULLWIDTH LEFT SQUARE BRACKET</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FF3D</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xff3d;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">FULLWIDTH RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET</span></li></ul></dd></dl> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div><a href="/wiki/Mediaeval_studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediaeval studies">Mediaeval studies</a><sup id="cite_ref-General_Punctuation_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-General_Punctuation-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Supplemental_Punctuation_14-1" class="reference"><a 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href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-B-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23A1</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23a1;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT SQUARE BRACKET UPPER CORNER</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23A2</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23a2;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT SQUARE BRACKET EXTENSION</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23A3</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23a3;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT SQUARE BRACKET LOWER CORNER</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23A4</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23a4;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET UPPER CORNER</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23A5</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23a5;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET EXTENSION</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23A6</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23a6;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET LOWER CORNER</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23B4</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23b4;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">TOP SQUARE BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;OverBracket;, &amp;tbrk;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23B5</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23b5;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BOTTOM SQUARE BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;bbrk;, &amp;UnderBracket;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23B6</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23b6;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BOTTOM SQUARE BRACKET OVER TOP SQUARE BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;bbrktbrk;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+27E6</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x27e6;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MATHEMATICAL LEFT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;LeftDoubleBracket;, &amp;lobrk;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+27E7</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x27e7;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MATHEMATICAL RIGHT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;RightDoubleBracket;, &amp;robrk;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+298B</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x298b;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH UNDERBAR</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;lbrke;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+298C</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x298c;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH UNDERBAR</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;rbrke;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+298D</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x298d;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN TOP CORNER</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;lbrkslu;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2990</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2990;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN TOP CORNER</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;rbrkslu;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+298E</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x298e;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN BOTTOM CORNER</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;rbrksld;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+298F</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x298f;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN BOTTOM CORNER</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;lbrksld;</span>) </li></ul> </div> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>Phonetic punctuation<sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Phonetic_Punctuation_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Phonetic_Punctuation-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E55</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e55;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH STROKE</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E56</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e56;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH STROKE</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E57</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e57;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH DOUBLE STROKE</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E58</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e58;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH DOUBLE STROKE</span> </li></ul> </div> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>Quotation<br />(East-Asian texts)<sup id="cite_ref-CJK_Symbols_and_Punctuation_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CJK_Symbols_and_Punctuation-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+301A</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x301a;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+301B</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x301b;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET</span> </li></ul> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237033735"><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/40px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/60px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/80px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Look up <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/square_bracket" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:square bracket">square bracket</a></b></i>, <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Unsupported_titles/Square_brackets" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:Unsupported titles/Square brackets">[&#160;]</a></b></i>, <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Unsupported_titles/Right_square_bracket" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:Unsupported titles/Right square bracket">[</a></b></i>, <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Unsupported_titles/Left_square_bracket" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:Unsupported titles/Left square bracket">]</a></b></i>, or <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crotchet" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:crotchet">crotchet</a></b></i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.</div></div> </div> <p><span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">[</span> and <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">]</span> are <i>square brackets</i> in both British and American English, but are also more simply <i>brackets</i> in the latter.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> An older name for these brackets is "crotchets".<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Uses_of_[_]"><span id="Uses_of_.5B_.5D"></span>Uses of [ ]<span class="anchor" id="Uses_of_square_brackets"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: Uses of [ ]"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Square brackets are often used to insert explanatory material or to mark where a [word or] passage was omitted from an original material by someone other than the original author, or to mark modifications in quotations.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In transcribed interviews, sounds, responses and reactions that are not words but that can be described are set off in square brackets — "... [laughs] ...". </p><p>When quoted material is in any way altered, the alterations are enclosed in square brackets within the quotation to show that the quotation is not exactly as given, or to add an <a href="/wiki/Annotation" title="Annotation">annotation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For example: <i>The Plaintiff asserted his cause is just, stating,</i> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>[m]y causes is <a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">&#91;<i>sic</i>&#93;</a> just.</p></blockquote> <p>In the original quoted sentence, the word "my" was capitalized: it has been modified in the quotation given and the change signalled with brackets. Similarly, where the quotation contained a grammatical error (is/are), the quoting author signalled that the error was in the original with "[<i>sic</i>]" (Latin for 'thus'). </p><p>A bracketed <a href="/wiki/Ellipsis" title="Ellipsis">ellipsis</a>, [...], is often used to indicate omitted material: "I'd like to thank [several unimportant people] for their tolerance [...]"<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Bracketed comments inserted into a quote indicate where the original has been modified for clarity: "I appreciate it [the honor], but I must refuse", and "the future of psionics [see definition] is in doubt". Or one can quote the original statement "I hate to do laundry" with a (sometimes grammatical) modification inserted: He "hate[s] to do laundry". </p><p>Additionally, a small letter can be replaced by a capital one, when the beginning of the original printed text is being quoted in another piece of text or when the original text has been omitted for succinctness— for example, when referring to a <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verbose" class="extiw" title="wikt:verbose">verbose</a> original: "To the extent that policymakers and elite opinion in general have made use of economic analysis at all, they have, as the saying goes, done so the way a drunkard uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination", can be quoted succinctly as: "[P]olicymakers [...] have made use of economic analysis [...] the way a drunkard uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination." When nested parentheses are needed, brackets are sometimes used as a substitute for the inner pair of parentheses within the outer pair.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> When deeper levels of nesting are needed, convention is to alternate between parentheses and brackets at each level. </p><p>Alternatively, empty square brackets can also indicate omitted material, usually single letter only. The original, "Reading is also a process and it also changes you." can be rewritten in a quote as: It has been suggested that reading can "also change[] you".<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In translated works, brackets are used to signify the same word or phrase in the original language to avoid ambiguity.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For example: <i>He is trained in the way of the open hand [karate].</i> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Style_guide" title="Style guide">Style and usage guides</a> originating in the <a href="/wiki/News_media#History" title="News media">news industry of the twentieth century</a>, such as the <i><a href="/wiki/AP_Stylebook" title="AP Stylebook">AP Stylebook</a></i>, recommend against the use of square brackets because "They cannot be transmitted over <a href="/wiki/List_of_wire_services" title="List of wire services">news wires</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-AP2014_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AP2014-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, this guidance has little relevance outside of the technological constraints of the industry and era. </p><p>In linguistics, <a href="/wiki/Phonetic_transcription" title="Phonetic transcription">phonetic transcriptions</a> are generally enclosed within square brackets,<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> whereas <a href="/wiki/Phonemic" class="mw-redirect" title="Phonemic">phonemic</a> transcriptions typically use paired <a href="/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)" title="Slash (punctuation)">slashes</a>, according to <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Brackets_and_transcription_delimiters" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">International Phonetic Alphabet</a> rules. Pipes (|&#160;|) are often used to indicate a <a href="/wiki/Morphophoneme" class="mw-redirect" title="Morphophoneme">morphophonemic</a> rather than phonemic representation. Other conventions are double slashes (⫽&#160;⫽), double pipes (‖&#160;‖) and curly brackets ({&#160;}). </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Lexicography" title="Lexicography">lexicography</a>, square brackets usually surround the section of a dictionary entry which contains the <a href="/wiki/Etymology" title="Etymology">etymology</a> of the word the entry defines. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Proofreading">Proofreading</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: Proofreading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Brackets (called <i>move-left symbols</i> or <i>move right symbols</i>) are added to the sides of text in <a href="/wiki/Proofreading" title="Proofreading">proofreading</a> to indicate changes in indentation: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th style="width:15%; text-align:left;">Move left </th> <td style="width:85%; text-align:left;">[To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. </td></tr> <tr> <th style="width:15%; text-align:left;">Center </th> <td style="width:85%; text-align:left;">]Paradise Lost[ </td></tr> <tr> <th style="width:15%; text-align:left;">Move up </th> <td style="width:85%; text-align:left;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Quote_to_be_Moved_Up.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Quote_to_be_Moved_Up.svg/330px-Quote_to_be_Moved_Up.svg.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Quote_to_be_Moved_Up.svg/495px-Quote_to_be_Moved_Up.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Quote_to_be_Moved_Up.svg/660px-Quote_to_be_Moved_Up.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="246" data-file-height="13" /></a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Square brackets are used to denote parts of the text that need to be checked when preparing drafts prior to finalizing a document. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Law">Law</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: Law"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Square brackets are used in some countries in the citation of <a href="/wiki/Law_report" title="Law report">law reports</a> to identify parallel citations to non-official reporters. For example: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p><i>Chronicle Pub. Co. v <a href="/wiki/Superior_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Superior Court">Superior Court</a></i> (1998) 54 Cal.2d 548, [7 Cal.Rptr. 109]</p></blockquote> <p>In some other countries (such as <a href="/wiki/England_and_Wales" title="England and Wales">England and Wales</a>), square brackets are used to indicate that the year is part of the citation and parentheses are used to indicate the year the judgment was given. For example: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p><i>National Coal Board v England</i> [1954] AC 403</p></blockquote> <p>This case is in the 1954 volume of the Appeal Cases reports, although the decision may have been given in 1953 or earlier. Compare with: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>(1954) 98 Sol Jo 176</p></blockquote> <p>This citation reports a decision from 1954, in volume 98 of the <i><a href="/wiki/Solicitors_Journal" title="Solicitors Journal">Solicitors Journal</a></i> which may be published in 1955 or later. </p><p>They often denote points that have not yet been agreed to in legal drafts and the year in which a report was made for certain <a href="/wiki/Case_law" title="Case law">case law</a> decisions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Square_brackets_in_mathematics">Square brackets in mathematics</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: Square brackets in mathematics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_mathematical_symbols#Square_brackets" title="Glossary of mathematical symbols">Glossary of mathematical symbols §&#160;Square brackets</a></div> <p>Brackets are used in <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a> in a variety of notations, including standard notations for <a href="/wiki/Commutator" title="Commutator">commutators</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Floor_and_ceiling_functions" title="Floor and ceiling functions">floor function</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Lie_bracket_of_vector_fields" title="Lie bracket of vector fields">Lie bracket</a>, <a href="/wiki/Equivalence_class#Notation_and_formal_definition" title="Equivalence class">equivalence classes</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Iverson_bracket" title="Iverson bracket">Iverson bracket</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Matrix_(mathematics)" title="Matrix (mathematics)">matrices</a>. </p><p>Square brackets may be used exclusively or in combination with parentheses to represent <a href="/wiki/Interval_(mathematics)" title="Interval (mathematics)">intervals</a> as <i>interval notation</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAchatzAnderson2005165–166_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAchatzAnderson2005165–166-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For example, <span class="texhtml">[0,5]</span> represents the set of real numbers from 0 to 5 inclusive. Both parentheses and brackets are used to denote a <i>half-open</i> interval; <span class="texhtml">&#91;5, 12)</span> would be the set of all real numbers between 5 and 12, including 5 but not 12. The numbers may come as close as they like to 12, including 11.999 and so forth, but 12.0 is not included. In some European countries, the notation <span class="texhtml">[5, 12[</span> is also used.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The endpoint adjoining the square bracket is known as <i>closed</i>, whereas the endpoint adjoining the parenthesis is known as <i>open</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAchatzAnderson2005165–166_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAchatzAnderson2005165–166-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Group_theory" title="Group theory">group theory</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ring_theory" title="Ring theory">ring theory</a>, brackets denote the <a href="/wiki/Commutator" title="Commutator">commutator</a>. In group theory, the commutator <span class="texhtml">[<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">g</span>, <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">h</span>]</span> is commonly defined as <span class="texhtml"><span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">g</span><sup> −1</sup> <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">h</span><sup> −1</sup> <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">g</span> <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">h</span> </span>. In ring theory, the commutator <span class="texhtml">[<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">a</span>, <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">b</span>]</span> is defined as <span class="texhtml"><span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">a</span> <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">b</span> − <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">b</span> <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">a</span> </span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Chemistry_2">Chemistry</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: Chemistry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Square brackets can also be used in <a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a> to represent the <a href="/wiki/Concentration" title="Concentration">concentration</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Chemical_substance" title="Chemical substance">chemical substance</a> in solution and to denote charge a Lewis structure of an ion (particularly distributed charge in a <a href="/wiki/Complex_(chemistry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Complex (chemistry)">complex ion</a>), repeating chemical units (particularly in polymers) and transition state structures, among other uses. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Square_brackets_in_programming_languages">Square brackets in programming languages</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: Square brackets in programming languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Brackets are used in many computer <a href="/wiki/Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming languages</a>, primarily for <a href="/wiki/Array_data_structure" class="mw-redirect" title="Array data structure">array</a> indexing. But they are also used to denote general tuples, sets and other structures, just as in mathematics. There may be several other uses as well, depending on the language at hand. In <a href="/wiki/Syntax_diagram" title="Syntax diagram">syntax diagrams</a> they are used for optional portions, such as in <a href="/wiki/Extended_Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form" title="Extended Backus–Naur form">extended Backus–Naur form</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Double_brackets_⟦_⟧"><span id="Double_brackets_.E2.9F.A6_.E2.9F.A7"></span>Double brackets ⟦ ⟧<span class="anchor" id="Double_brackets"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: Double brackets ⟦ ⟧"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Double brackets (or white square brackets or <a href="/wiki/Dana_Scott" title="Dana Scott">Scott</a> brackets), ⟦&#160;⟧, are used to indicate the <i>semantic evaluation function</i> in <a href="/wiki/Formal_semantics_(linguistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Formal semantics (linguistics)">formal semantics</a> for natural language and <a href="/wiki/Denotational_semantics" title="Denotational semantics">denotational semantics</a> for programming languages.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Wolfram_Language" title="Wolfram Language">Wolfram Language</a>, double brackets, either as iterated single brackets (&#91;&#91;) or ligatures (〚) are used for <a href="/wiki/Array_index" class="mw-redirect" title="Array index">list indexing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The brackets stand for a function that maps a linguistic expression to its "denotation" or semantic value. In mathematics, double brackets may also be used to denote <a href="/wiki/Interval_(mathematics)#Integer_intervals" title="Interval (mathematics)">intervals of integers</a> or, less often, the <a href="/wiki/Floor_and_ceiling_functions" title="Floor and ceiling functions">floor function</a>. In papyrology, following the <a href="/wiki/Leiden_Conventions" title="Leiden Conventions">Leiden Conventions</a>, they are used to enclose text that has been deleted in antiquity.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lenticular_brackets【】"><span id="Lenticular_brackets.E3.80.90.E3.80.91"></span>Lenticular brackets【】<span class="anchor" id="Lenticular_brackets"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=20" title="Edit section: Lenticular brackets【】"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237033735"><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/40px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/60px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/80px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Look up <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%80%90_%E3%80%91" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:【 】">【&#160;】</a></b></i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.</div></div> </div> <p>Some <a href="/wiki/East_Asia" title="East Asia">East Asian</a> languages use lenticular brackets <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">【</span> <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">】</span>, a combination of square brackets and round brackets called <span lang="zh"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%96%B9%E9%A0%AD%E6%8B%AC%E8%99%9F#Chinese" class="extiw" title="wikt:方頭括號">方頭括號</a></span> (<i>fāngtóu kuòhào</i>) in <a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a> and <span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">隅付き括弧</span></span> (<i>sumitsuki kakko</i>) in <a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a>. They are used in titles and headings in both Chinese<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and Japanese. On the Internet, they are used to emphasize a text. In Japanese, they are most frequently seen in dictionaries for quoting Chinese characters and Sino-Japanese loanwords. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Floor_⌊_⌋_and_ceiling_⌈_⌉_corner_brackets"><span id="Floor_.E2.8C.8A_.E2.8C.8B_and_ceiling_.E2.8C.88_.E2.8C.89_corner_brackets"></span>Floor ⌊ ⌋ and ceiling ⌈ ⌉ corner brackets<span class="anchor" id="Floor_and_ceiling_corner_brackets"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=21" title="Edit section: Floor ⌊ ⌋ and ceiling ⌈ ⌉ corner brackets"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="max-width:18em;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><div style="font-size:125%; background:#ebebeb; font-weight:bold; padding:0.1em; line-height:1.2em;">Floor and ceiling</div></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><div style="background:#ebebeb;padding:0 0 0.4em;line-height:1.2em;"> <table align="center" style="display:table;padding:0;background:transparent;width:100%"> <tbody><tr style="font-size: 300%; text-align: center; line-height: 0.01; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, &#39;Nimbus Roman No9 L&#39;, &#39;Liberation Serif&#39;, serif, georgia;"> <th style="padding:0.5em 0.1em; min-width:1.0em; text-align: center;">⌈<i>ceiling</i>⌉ </th> <th style="padding:0.5em 0.1em ;min-width:1.0em; text-align: center;">⌊<i>floor</i>⌋ </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th> </th> <th> </th></tr></tbody></table></div></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">In Unicode</th></tr><tr class="bulletlist" style="float:left;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="text-align:left;"> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Floor_and_ceiling_functions" title="Floor and ceiling functions">Floor and ceiling functions</a><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></dt> <dd> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2308</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2308;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT CEILING</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;lceil;, &amp;LeftCeiling;</span>)</li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2309</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2309;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT CEILING</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;rceil;, &amp;RightCeiling;</span>)</li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+230A</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x230a;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT FLOOR</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;LeftFloor;, &amp;lfloor;</span>)</li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+230B</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x230b;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT FLOOR</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;rfloor;, &amp;RightFloor;</span>)</li></ul></dd></dl> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237033735"><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/40px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/60px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/80px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Look up <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E2%8C%8A_%E2%8C%8B" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:⌊ ⌋">⌊&#160;⌋</a></b></i>&#160;or <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E2%8C%88_%E2%8C%89" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:⌈ ⌉">⌈&#160;⌉</a></b></i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.</div></div> </div> <p>The floor corner brackets <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">⌊</span> and <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">⌋</span>, the ceiling corner brackets <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">⌈</span> and <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">⌉</span> (U+2308, U+2309) are used to denote the integer <a href="/wiki/Floor_and_ceiling_functions" title="Floor and ceiling functions">floor and ceiling functions</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quine_corners_⌜⌝_and_half_brackets_⸤_⸥_or_⸢_⸣"><span id="Quine_corners_.E2.8C.9C.E2.8C.9D_and_half_brackets_.E2.B8.A4_.E2.B8.A5_or_.E2.B8.A2_.E2.B8.A3"></span>Quine corners ⌜⌝ and half brackets ⸤ ⸥ or ⸢ ⸣<span class="anchor" id="Quine_corners_and_half_brackets"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=22" title="Edit section: Quine corners ⌜⌝ and half brackets ⸤ ⸥ or ⸢ ⸣"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Quine corners <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">⌜</span> and <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">⌝</span> have at least two uses in <a href="/wiki/Mathematical_logic" title="Mathematical logic">mathematical logic</a>: either as <a href="/wiki/Quasi-quotation" title="Quasi-quotation">quasi-quotation</a>, a generalization of quotation marks, or to denote the <a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6del_number" class="mw-redirect" title="Gödel number">Gödel number</a> of the enclosed <a href="/wiki/Expression_(mathematics)" title="Expression (mathematics)">expression</a>. </p><p>Half brackets are used in English to mark added text, such as in translations: "Bill saw ⸤her⸥". </p><p>In editions of <a href="/wiki/Papyrology" title="Papyrology">papyrological</a> texts, half brackets, ⸤ and ⸥ or ⸢ and ⸣, enclose text which is lacking in the papyrus due to damage, but can be restored by virtue of another source, such as an ancient quotation of the text transmitted by the papyrus.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For example, <a href="/wiki/Callimachus" title="Callimachus">Callimachus</a> <i>Iambus</i> 1.2 reads: ἐκ τῶν ὅκου βοῦν κολλύ⸤βου π⸥ιπρήσκουσιν. A hole in the papyrus has obliterated βου π, but these letters are supplied by an ancient commentary on the poem. Second intermittent sources can be between ⸢ and ⸣. Quine corners are sometimes used instead of half brackets.<sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Brackets_with_quills_⁅_⁆"><span id="Brackets_with_quills_.E2.81.85_.E2.81.86"></span>Brackets with quills ⁅ ⁆<span class="anchor" id="Brackets_with_quills"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=23" title="Edit section: Brackets with quills ⁅ ⁆"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Known as "spike parentheses" (<a href="/wiki/Swedish_language" title="Swedish language">Swedish</a>: <i lang="sv">piggparenteser</i>), <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">⁅</code> and <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">⁆</code> are used in Swedish <a href="/wiki/Bilingual_dictionary" title="Bilingual dictionary">bilingual dictionaries</a> to enclose supplemental constructions.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Curly_brackets">Curly brackets<span class="anchor" id="Braces"></span><span class="anchor" id="Brace"></span><span class="anchor" id="Curly_bracket"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=24" title="Edit section: Curly brackets"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="max-width:18em;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><div style="font-size:125%; background:#ebebeb; font-weight:bold; padding:0.1em; line-height:1.2em;">Curly brackets</div></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><div style="background:#ebebeb;padding:0 0 0.4em;line-height:1.2em;"> <table align="center" style="display:table;padding:0;background:transparent;width:100%"> <tbody><tr style="font-size: 300%; text-align: center; line-height: 0.01; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, Times, &#39;Nimbus Roman No9 L&#39;, &#39;Liberation Serif&#39;, serif, georgia;"> <th style="padding:0.5em 0.1em; min-width:1.0em; text-align: center;">{&#160;} </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th> </th></tr></tbody></table></div></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">In Unicode</th></tr><tr class="bulletlist" style="float:left;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="text-align:left;"> <dl><dt>General<br />(half width)<sup id="cite_ref-Basic_Latin_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Basic_Latin-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></dt> <dd> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+007B</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x7b;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT CURLY BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;lbrace;, &amp;lcub;</span>)</li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+007D</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x7d;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT CURLY BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;rbrace;, &amp;rcub;</span>)</li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>General<br />(full-width East Asian)<sup id="cite_ref-Halfwidth_and_Fullwidth_Forms_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Halfwidth_and_Fullwidth_Forms-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></dt> <dd> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FF5B</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xff5b;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">FULLWIDTH LEFT CURLY BRACKET</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FF5D</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xff5d;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">FULLWIDTH RIGHT CURLY BRACKET</span></li></ul></dd></dl> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>Technical/Mathematical<br />(half-width)<sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical_15-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Superscripts_and_Subscripts_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Superscripts_and_Subscripts-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-A_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-A-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-B_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-B-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23A7</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23a7;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT CURLY BRACKET UPPER HOOK</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23A8</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23a8;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT CURLY BRACKET MIDDLE PIECE</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23A9</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23a9;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT CURLY BRACKET LOWER HOOK</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23AB</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23ab;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT CURLY BRACKET UPPER HOOK</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23AC</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23ac;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT CURLY BRACKET MIDDLE PIECE</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23AD</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23ad;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT CURLY BRACKET LOWER HOOK</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23AA</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23aa;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">CURLY BRACKET EXTENSION</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23B0</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23b0;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">UPPER LEFT OR LOWER RIGHT CURLY BRACKET SECTION</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;lmoust;, &amp;lmoustache;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23B1</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23b1;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">UPPER RIGHT OR LOWER LEFT CURLY BRACKET SECTION</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;rmoust;, &amp;rmoustache;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23DE</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23de;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">TOP CURLY BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;OverBrace;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23DF</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23df;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BOTTOM CURLY BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;UnderBrace;</span>) </li></ul> </div> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div><a href="/wiki/Dingbat" title="Dingbat">Dingbats</a><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Dingbats_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Dingbats-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2774</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2774;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MEDIUM LEFT CURLY BRACKET ORNAMENT</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2775</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2775;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MEDIUM RIGHT CURLY BRACKET ORNAMENT</span> </li></ul> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">&#123;</span> and <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">&#125;</span> are <i>curly brackets</i> or <i>braces</i> in both American and British English.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Uses_of_{_}"><span id="Uses_of_.7B_.7D"></span>Uses of { }<span class="anchor" id="Uses_of_curly_brackets"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=25" title="Edit section: Uses of { }"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Curly_Bracket_Notation.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Curly_Bracket_Notation.png/110px-Curly_Bracket_Notation.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Curly_Bracket_Notation.png/165px-Curly_Bracket_Notation.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Curly_Bracket_Notation.png 2x" data-file-width="210" data-file-height="297" /></a><figcaption>An example of curly brackets used to group sentences together</figcaption></figure> <p>Curly brackets are used by text editors to mark editorial insertions<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> or interpolations.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Braces used to be used to connect multiple lines of poetry, such as triplets in a poem of rhyming <a href="/wiki/Couplet" title="Couplet">couplets</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> although this usage had gone out of fashion by the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERobertson1785143_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobertson1785143-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilson1850165_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilson1850165-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another older use in prose was to eliminate duplication in lists and tables.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilson1850165_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilson1850165-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Two examples here from <a href="/wiki/Charles_Hutton" title="Charles Hutton">Charles Hutton</a>'s 19th century table table of weights and measures in his <i>A Course of Mathematics</i>: </p> <blockquote style="border:1px solid; padding:0.5em;"> <table cellpadding="0;" cellspacing="0;"> <caption>In this kingdom<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHutton183618_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHutton183618-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <td rowspan="5">The standard of ...</td> <td>⎧</td> <td>Length is a Yard. </td></tr> <tr> <td>⎪</td> <td>Surface is a Square Yard, the <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>&#8260;<span class="den">4840</span></span> of an Acre. </td></tr> <tr> <td>⎨</td> <td>⎰ Solidity is a Cubic Yard. </td></tr> <tr> <td>⎪</td> <td>⎱ Capacity is a Gallon. </td></tr> <tr> <td>⎩</td> <td>Weight is a Pound. </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> <blockquote style="border:1px solid; padding:0.5em;"> <table cellpadding="0;" cellspacing="0;"> <caption>Imperial measure of CAPACITY for coals, culm, lime, fish, potatoes, fruit,&#8211; and other goods commonly sold by <i>heaped measure</i>:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHutton183620_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHutton183620-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <td>2 Gallons</td> <td>= 1 Peck</td> <td>= 764</td> <td>⎱ </td> <td rowspan="2">Cubic Inches, nearly </td></tr> <tr> <td>8 Gallons</td> <td>= 1 Bushel</td> <td>= <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac">2813<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>&#8260;<span class="den">2</span></span></td> <td>⎰ </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 Bushels</td> <td>= 1 Sack</td> <td>= <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac">4<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">8</span>&#8260;<span class="den">9</span></span></td> <td>⎱ </td> <td rowspan="2">Cubic Feet, nearly </td></tr> <tr> <td>12 Sacks</td> <td>= 1 Chald.</td> <td>= <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac">58<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">2</span>&#8260;<span class="den">3</span></span></td> <td>⎰ </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> <p>As an extension to the <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">International Phonetic Alphabet</a> (IPA), <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Brackets_and_transcription_delimiters" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">braces are used for prosodic notation</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Music">Music</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=26" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In music, they are known as "<a href="/wiki/Accolade_(notation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Accolade (notation)">accolades</a>" or "<a href="/wiki/Brace_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brace (music)">braces</a>", and connect two or more lines (staves) of music that are played simultaneously.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Chemistry_3">Chemistry</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=27" title="Edit section: Chemistry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The use of braces in chemistry is an old notation that has long since been superseded by subscripted numbers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatts1877140–141_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatts1877140–141-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The chemical formula for water, H<sub>2</sub>O, was represented as <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \left.{{H} \atop {H}}\right\}O}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow> <mo fence="true" stretchy="true" symmetric="true"></mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac linethickness="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>H</mi> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>H</mi> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> <mo>}</mo> </mrow> <mi>O</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \left.{{H} \atop {H}}\right\}O}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/52f3a4aa7be00231e8e8deecdfa9f570d1936cca" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -2.505ex; width:6.525ex; height:6.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \left.{{H} \atop {H}}\right\}O}"></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatts1877140–141_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatts1877140–141-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:left;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Curly_brackets_in_programming_languages">Curly brackets in programming languages</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=28" title="Edit section: Curly brackets in programming languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Bracing_style" class="mw-redirect" title="Bracing style">Bracing style</a></div> <p>In many programming languages, curly brackets enclose groups of <a href="/wiki/Statement_(programming)" class="mw-redirect" title="Statement (programming)">statements</a> and create a local <a href="/wiki/Scope_(computer_science)" title="Scope (computer science)">scope</a>. Such languages (<a href="/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a>, C#, C++ and many others) are therefore called <a href="/wiki/Curly_bracket_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Curly bracket language">curly bracket languages</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> They are also used to define structures and <a href="/wiki/Enumerated_type" title="Enumerated type">enumerated type</a> in these languages. </p><p>In various <a href="/wiki/Unix_shell" title="Unix shell">Unix shells</a>, they enclose a group of strings that are used in a process known as <i>brace expansion</i>, where each successive string in the group is interpolated at that point in the command line to generate the command-line's final form.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENewhamRosenblatt199814_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENewhamRosenblatt199814-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The mechanism originated in the <a href="/wiki/C_shell" title="C shell">C shell</a> and the string generation mechanism is a simple interpolation that can occur anywhere in a command line and takes no account of existing filenames.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESobellSeebach2005323_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESobellSeebach2005323-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Syntax_diagram" title="Syntax diagram">syntax diagrams</a> they are used for repetition, such as in <a href="/wiki/Extended_Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form" title="Extended Backus–Naur form">extended Backus–Naur form</a>. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Z_notation" title="Z notation">Z</a> <a href="/wiki/Formal_specification" title="Formal specification">formal specification</a> language, braces define a set. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Curly_brackets_in_mathematics">Curly brackets in mathematics</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=29" title="Edit section: Curly brackets in mathematics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_mathematical_symbols#Braces" title="Glossary of mathematical symbols">Glossary of mathematical symbols §&#160;Braces</a></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a> they delimit <a href="/wiki/Set_(mathematics)" title="Set (mathematics)">sets</a>, in what is called <i>set notation</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiggs2002_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBiggs2002-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Braces enclose either a literal list of set elements, or a rule that defines the set elements.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiggs2002_65-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBiggs2002-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For example: </p> <ul><li><span class="texhtml">S = {<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">a</span>, <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">b</span>}</span> defines a set <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">S</span> containing <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">a</span> and <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">b</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiggs2002_65-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBiggs2002-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="texhtml">S = {<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">x</span> | <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">x</span> &gt; 0}</span> defines a set <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">S</span> containing elements (implied to be numbers) <span class="texhtml"><span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">x</span><sub>0</sub></span>, <span class="texhtml"><span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">x</span><sub>1</sub></span>, and so on where every <span class="texhtml"><span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">x</span><sub><span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">n</span></sub></span> satisfies the rule that it is greater than zero.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBiggs2002_65-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBiggs2002-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>They are often also used to denote the <a href="/wiki/Poisson_bracket" title="Poisson bracket">Poisson bracket</a> between two quantities. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Ring_theory" title="Ring theory">ring theory</a>, braces denote the <a href="/wiki/Anticommutator" class="mw-redirect" title="Anticommutator">anticommutator</a> where <span class="texhtml">{<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">a</span>, <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">b</span>}</span> is defined as <span class="texhtml"><span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">a</span> <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">b</span> + <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">b</span> <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">a</span> </span>. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237033735"><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/40px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/60px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/80px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Look up <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curly_bracket" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:curly bracket">curly bracket</a></b></i>, <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brace" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:brace">brace</a></b></i>, <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Unsupported_titles/Curly_brackets" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:Unsupported titles/Curly brackets">{&#160;}</a></b></i>, <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Unsupported_titles/Right_curly_bracket" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:Unsupported titles/Right curly bracket">{</a></b></i>, <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Unsupported_titles/Left_curly_bracket" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:Unsupported titles/Left curly bracket">}</a></b></i>, <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/squiggly" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:squiggly">squiggly</a></b></i>, or <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accolade" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:accolade">accolade</a></b></i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.</div></div> </div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Angle_brackets">Angle brackets<span class="anchor" id="Angle_bracket"></span><span class="anchor" id="Chevrons"></span><span class="anchor" id="Chevron"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=30" title="Edit section: Angle brackets"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Angle bracket" redirects here. For a mechanical part used for joining, see <a href="/wiki/Angle_bracket_(fastener)" title="Angle bracket (fastener)">Angle bracket (fastener)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Bracket" title="Special:EditPage/Bracket">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>&#32;in this section. 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min-width:1.0em; text-align: center;">⟨&#160;⟩ </th> <th style="padding:0.5em 0.1em ;min-width:1.0em; text-align: center;">⟪&#160;⟫ </th> <th style="padding:0.5em 0.1em; min-width:1.0em; text-align: center;">&lt;&#160;&gt; </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th style="padding:0.2em; text-align: center;">Angle brackets (BE&amp;AE)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </th> <th style="padding:0.2em; text-align: center;">Angle brackets (BE&amp;AE)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </th> <th style="padding:0.2em; text-align: center;">less-than and greater-than </th></tr></tbody></table></div></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">In Unicode</th></tr><tr class="bulletlist" style="float:left;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="text-align:left;"> <dl><dt>Less/greater than<br />(half width)<sup id="cite_ref-Basic_Latin_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Basic_Latin-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></dt> <dd> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+003C</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x3c;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LESS-THAN SIGN</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;lt;, &amp;LT;</span>)</li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+003E</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x3e;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">GREATER-THAN SIGN</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;gt;, &amp;GT;</span>)</li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>Less/greater than<br />(full-width East Asian)<sup id="cite_ref-Halfwidth_and_Fullwidth_Forms_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Halfwidth_and_Fullwidth_Forms-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></dt> <dd> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FF1C</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xff1c;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">FULLWIDTH LESS-THAN SIGN</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FF1E</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xff1e;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">FULLWIDTH GREATER-THAN SIGN</span></li></ul></dd></dl> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>Technical/Mathematical<br />(half-width)<sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical_15-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Superscripts_and_Subscripts_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Superscripts_and_Subscripts-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-A_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-A-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-B_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-B-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2329</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2329;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET</span><sup id="cite_ref-lang-rang_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lang-rang-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+232A</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x232a;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET</span><sup id="cite_ref-lang-rang_66-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lang-rang-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+27E8</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x27e8;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;lang;, &amp;langle;, &amp;LeftAngleBracket;</span>)<sup id="cite_ref-lang-rang_66-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lang-rang-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+27E9</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x27e9;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MATHEMATICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;rang;, &amp;rangle;, &amp;RightAngleBracket;</span>)<sup id="cite_ref-lang-rang_66-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lang-rang-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+27EA</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x27ea;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MATHEMATICAL LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;Lang;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+27EB</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x27eb;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MATHEMATICAL RIGHT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;Rang;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2991</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2991;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT ANGLE BRACKET WITH DOT</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;langd;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2992</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2992;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET WITH DOT</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;rangd;</span>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+29FC</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x29fc;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT-POINTING CURVED ANGLE BRACKET</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+29FD</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x29fd;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT-POINTING CURVED ANGLE BRACKET</span> </li></ul> </div> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>Quotation<br />(fullwidth East-Asian texts)<sup id="cite_ref-CJK_Symbols_and_Punctuation_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CJK_Symbols_and_Punctuation-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+3008</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x3008;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT ANGLE BRACKET</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+3009</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x3009;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+300A</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x300a;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+300B</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x300b;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET</span> </li></ul> </div> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div><a href="/wiki/Dingbat" title="Dingbat">Dingbats</a><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Dingbats_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Dingbats-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+276C</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x276c;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MEDIUM LEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET ORNAMENT</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+276D</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x276d;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MEDIUM RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET ORNAMENT</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2770</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2770;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">HEAVY LEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET ORNAMENT</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2771</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2771;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">HEAVY RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET ORNAMENT</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+276E</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x276e;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">HEAVY LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK ORNAMENT</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+276F</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x276f;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">HEAVY RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK ORNAMENT</span> </li></ul> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">&#10216;</span> and <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">&#10217;</span> are <i>angle brackets</i> in both American and British English.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In computer slang, they are known as "brokets".<sup id="cite_ref-brocket_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brocket-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Strictly speaking they are distinct from V-shaped <i>chevrons</i>, as they have (where the typography permits it) a broader span than chevrons,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPeters2007138_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeters2007138-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> although when printed often no visual distinction is made.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPeters2007101_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeters2007101-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ASCII less-than and greater-than characters <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&lt;&gt;</span> are often used for angle brackets. In most cases only those characters are accepted by computer programs, and the Unicode angle brackets are not recognized (for instance, in <a href="/wiki/HTML_tag" class="mw-redirect" title="HTML tag">HTML tags</a>). The characters for "single" <a href="/wiki/Guillemet" title="Guillemet">guillemets</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">‹›</span> are also often used, and sometimes normal guillemets <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">«»</span> when nested angle brackets are needed. </p><p>The angle brackets or chevrons at U+27E8 and U+27E9 are for mathematical use and Western languages, whereas U+3008 and U+3009 are for East Asian languages. The chevrons at U+2329 and U+232A are deprecated in favour of the U+3008 and U+3009 East Asian angle brackets. Unicode discourages their use for mathematics and in Western texts,<sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical_15-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> because they are canonically equivalent to the CJK code points U+300x and thus likely to render as double-width symbols. The <i>less-than</i> and <i>greater-than</i> symbols are often used as replacements for chevrons. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-lang-rang-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-lang-rang_66-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lang-rang_66-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lang-rang_66-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lang-rang_66-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">&amp;lang; and &amp;rang; were tied to the deprecated symbols U+2329 and U+232A in HTML4 and MathML2, but are being migrated to U+27E8 and U+27E9 for HTML5 and MathML3, as defined in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/#diff-xhtml1">XML Entity Definitions for Characters</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127173609/http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/#diff-xhtml1">Archived</a> 27 January 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>).</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shape">Shape</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=31" title="Edit section: Shape"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Angle brackets are larger than <a href="/wiki/Less-than_sign" title="Less-than sign">less-than</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greater-than_sign" title="Greater-than sign">greater-than signs</a>, which in turn are larger than <a href="/wiki/Guillemet" title="Guillemet">guillemets</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Angle_brackets_and_less%2Bgreater_signs_and_half_guillemets_in_different_fonts.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Angle_brackets_and_less%2Bgreater_signs_and_half_guillemets_in_different_fonts.svg/660px-Angle_brackets_and_less%2Bgreater_signs_and_half_guillemets_in_different_fonts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="660" height="42" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Angle_brackets_and_less%2Bgreater_signs_and_half_guillemets_in_different_fonts.svg/990px-Angle_brackets_and_less%2Bgreater_signs_and_half_guillemets_in_different_fonts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Angle_brackets_and_less%2Bgreater_signs_and_half_guillemets_in_different_fonts.svg/1320px-Angle_brackets_and_less%2Bgreater_signs_and_half_guillemets_in_different_fonts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="516" data-file-height="33" /></a><figcaption>Angle brackets, less-than/greater-than signs and single <a href="/wiki/Guillemet" title="Guillemet">guillemets</a> in fonts <a href="/wiki/Cambria_(typeface)" title="Cambria (typeface)">Cambria</a>, <a href="/wiki/DejaVu_fonts" title="DejaVu fonts">DejaVu</a> Serif, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Andron_(typeface)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Andron (typeface) (page does not exist)">Andron</a> Mega Corpus, <a href="/wiki/Andika_(typeface)" title="Andika (typeface)">Andika</a> and <a href="/wiki/Everson_Mono" title="Everson Mono">Everson Mono</a></figcaption></figure> <div style="clear:left;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Uses_of_⟨_⟩"><span id="Uses_of_.E2.9F.A8_.E2.9F.A9"></span>Uses of ⟨ ⟩<span class="anchor" id="Uses_of_angle_brackets"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=32" title="Edit section: Uses of ⟨ ⟩"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Angle brackets are infrequently used to denote <a href="/wiki/Intrapersonal_communication" title="Intrapersonal communication">words that are thought</a> instead of spoken, such as: </p> <dl><dd><span class="nowrap">&#x27e8;What an unusual flower!&#x27e9;</span></dd></dl> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Textual_criticism" title="Textual criticism">textual criticism</a>, and hence in many editions of pre-modern works, chevrons denote sections of the text which are illegible or otherwise lost; the editor will often insert their own reconstruction where possible within them.<sup id="cite_ref-Trask_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trask-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Comic_book" title="Comic book">comic books</a>, chevrons are often used to mark dialogue that has been translated notionally from another language; in other words, if a character is speaking another language, instead of writing in the other language and providing a translation, one writes the translated text within chevrons. Since no foreign language is actually written, this is only <i>notionally</i> translated.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Linguistics" title="Linguistics">linguistics</a>, angle brackets identify <a href="/wiki/Grapheme" title="Grapheme">graphemes</a> (<abbr title="for example">e.g.</abbr>, letters of an alphabet) or <a href="/wiki/Orthography" title="Orthography">orthography</a>, as in "The English word <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/kæt/</span> is spelled <span class="nowrap">&#x27e8;cat&#x27e9;</span>."<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Sampson_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sampson-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trask_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trask-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1033199720">.mw-parser-output div.crossreference{padding-left:0}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference">(See <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Brackets_and_transcription_delimiters" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA Brackets and transcription delimiters</a>.)</span> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Epigraphy" title="Epigraphy">epigraphy</a>, they may be used for mechanical transliterations of a text into the Latin script.<sup id="cite_ref-Sampson_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sampson-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Quotation_mark#Chinese,_Japanese_and_Korean_quotation_marks" title="Quotation mark">East Asian punctuation</a>, angle brackets are used as <a href="/wiki/Quotation_mark" title="Quotation mark">quotation marks</a>. Chevron-like symbols are part of standard <a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a> and&#160;&#8211;&#32; less frequently&#160;&#8211;&#32; <a href="/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a> punctuation, where they generally enclose the titles of books, as: <span style="writing-mode:vertical-rl">〈 ... 〉</span> or <span style="writing-mode:vertical-rl">《 ... 》</span> for traditional <a href="/wiki/Tategaki" class="mw-redirect" title="Tategaki">vertical printing</a> — written in vertical lines — and as 〈 ... 〉 or 《 ... 》 for <a href="/wiki/Yokogaki" class="mw-redirect" title="Yokogaki">horizontal</a> printing — in horizontal. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Angle_brackets_in_mathematics">Angle brackets in mathematics</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=33" title="Edit section: Angle brackets in mathematics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_mathematical_symbols#⟨⟩" title="Glossary of mathematical symbols">Glossary of mathematical symbols §&#160;⟨⟩</a></div> <p>Angle brackets (or 'chevrons') are used in <a href="/wiki/Group_theory" title="Group theory">group theory</a> to write <a href="/wiki/Group_presentation" class="mw-redirect" title="Group presentation">group presentations</a>, and to denote the <a href="/wiki/Group_generators" class="mw-redirect" title="Group generators">subgroup generated</a> by a collection of elements. In <a href="/wiki/Set_theory" title="Set theory">set theory</a>, chevrons or parentheses are used to denote <a href="/wiki/Ordered_pair" title="Ordered pair">ordered pairs</a><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and other <a href="/wiki/Tuple" title="Tuple">tuples</a>, whereas curly brackets are used for unordered sets. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Physics_and_mechanics">Physics and mechanics</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=34" title="Edit section: Physics and mechanics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In physical sciences and statistical mechanics, angle brackets are used to denote an average (<i><a href="/wiki/Expected_value#Notations" title="Expected value">expected value</a></i>) over time or over another continuous parameter. For example: </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \left\langle V(t)^{2}\right\rangle =\lim _{T\to \infty }{\frac {1}{T}}\int _{-{\frac {T}{2}}}^{\frac {T}{2}}V(t)^{2}\,{\rm {d}}t.}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow> <mo>&#x27E8;</mo> <mrow> <mi>V</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>t</mi> <msup> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>2</mn> </mrow> </msup> </mrow> <mo>&#x27E9;</mo> </mrow> <mo>=</mo> <munder> <mo movablelimits="true" form="prefix">lim</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>T</mi> <mo stretchy="false">&#x2192;<!-- → --></mo> <mi mathvariant="normal">&#x221E;<!-- ∞ --></mi> </mrow> </munder> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mn>1</mn> <mi>T</mi> </mfrac> </mrow> <msubsup> <mo>&#x222B;<!-- ∫ --></mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>&#x2212;<!-- − --></mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mi>T</mi> <mn>2</mn> </mfrac> </mrow> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mi>T</mi> <mn>2</mn> </mfrac> </mrow> </msubsup> <mi>V</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>t</mi> <msup> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>2</mn> </mrow> </msup> <mspace width="thinmathspace" /> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="normal">d</mi> </mrow> </mrow> <mi>t</mi> <mo>.</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \left\langle V(t)^{2}\right\rangle =\lim _{T\to \infty }{\frac {1}{T}}\int _{-{\frac {T}{2}}}^{\frac {T}{2}}V(t)^{2}\,{\rm {d}}t.}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/27865e5436b89b0661120d76afa967c4c64f70e3" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -3.338ex; width:32.096ex; height:7.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \left\langle V(t)^{2}\right\rangle =\lim _{T\to \infty }{\frac {1}{T}}\int _{-{\frac {T}{2}}}^{\frac {T}{2}}V(t)^{2}\,{\rm {d}}t.}"></span></dd></dl> <p>In mathematical physics, especially <a href="/wiki/Quantum_mechanics" title="Quantum mechanics">quantum mechanics</a>, it is common to write the <a href="/wiki/Inner_product" class="mw-redirect" title="Inner product">inner product</a> between elements as <span class="texhtml"><span class="nowrap">&#x27e8;<i>a</i>&#124;<i>b</i>&#x27e9;</span></span>, as a short version of <span class="texhtml"><span class="nowrap">&#x27e8;<i>a</i>&#124;</span>·<span class="nowrap">&#124;<i>b</i>&#x27e9;</span></span>, or <span class="texhtml"><span class="nowrap">&#x27e8;<i>a</i>&#124;</span><i>Ô</i><span class="nowrap">&#124;<i>b</i>&#x27e9;</span></span>, where <span class="texhtml"><i>Ô</i></span> is an <a href="/wiki/Operator_(physics)" title="Operator (physics)">operator</a>. This is known as <i>Dirac notation</i> or <i><a href="/wiki/Bra%E2%80%93ket_notation" title="Bra–ket notation">bra–ket notation</a></i>, to note vectors from the <a href="/wiki/Dual_space" title="Dual space">dual spaces</a> of the Bra&#160;<span class="nowrap">&#x27e8;<span class="texhtml"><i>A</i>&#124;</span> and the Ket&#160;<span class="texhtml">&#124;<i>B</i></span>&#x27e9;</span>. But there are <a href="/wiki/Inner_product_space#Alternative_definitions,_notations_and_remarks" title="Inner product space">other notations</a> used. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Continuum_mechanics" title="Continuum mechanics">continuum mechanics</a>, chevrons may be used as <a href="/wiki/Macaulay_brackets" title="Macaulay brackets">Macaulay brackets</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Angle_brackets_in_programming_languages">Angle brackets in programming languages</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=35" title="Edit section: Angle brackets in programming languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a> chevrons (actually less-than and greater-than) are used to surround arguments to <a href="/wiki/Template_(C%2B%2B)" title="Template (C++)">templates</a>. They are also used to surround the names of <a href="/wiki/Header_file#C/C++" class="mw-redirect" title="Header file">header files</a>; this usage was inherited from and is also found in <a href="/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a>. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Z_notation" title="Z notation">Z</a> <a href="/wiki/Formal_specification" title="Formal specification">formal specification</a> language, chevrons define a sequence. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a>, chevrons (actually 'greater than' and 'less than' symbols) are used to bracket meta text. For example <code class="nowrap" style="">&lt;b&gt;</code> denotes that the following text should be displayed as bold. Pairs of meta text tags are required – much as brackets themselves are usually in pairs. The end of the bold text segment would be indicated by <code class="nowrap" style="">&lt;&#47;b&gt;</code>. This use is sometimes extended as an informal mechanism for communicating mood or tone in digital formats such as messaging, for example adding "&lt;sighs&gt;" at the end of a sentence. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237033735"><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/40px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/60px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/80px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Look up <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/angle_bracket" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:angle bracket">angle bracket</a></b></i>, <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E2%9F%A8_%E2%9F%A9" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:⟨ ⟩">⟨&#160;⟩</a></b></i>, <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Unsupported_titles/Enclosing_less_than_greater_than" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:Unsupported titles/Enclosing less than greater than">&lt;&#160;&gt;</a></b></i>, <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/broket" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:broket">broket</a></b></i>, <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pointy_bracket" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:pointy bracket">pointy bracket</a></b></i>, or <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/diamond_bracket" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:diamond bracket">diamond bracket</a></b></i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.</div></div> </div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Unicode">Unicode<span class="anchor" id="Encoding"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=36" title="Edit section: Unicode"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Representations of various kinds of brackets in <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> and their respective <a href="/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references" title="List of XML and HTML character entity references">HTML entities</a>, that are not in the infoboxes in preceding sections, are given below. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Unicode and HTML encodings for various bracket characters </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Uses</th> <th scope="col">Unicode/HTML</th> <th scope="col">Sample </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Quasi-quotation" title="Quasi-quotation">Quine corners</a><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical_15-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+231C</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x231c;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">TOP LEFT CORNER</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;ulcorn;, &amp;ulcorner;</span>)</td> <td rowspan="2">⌜<i>quasi-quotation</i>⌝<br />⌜<i>editorial notation</i>⌝ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+231D</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x231d;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">TOP RIGHT CORNER</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;urcorn;, &amp;urcorner;</span>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+231E</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x231e;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BOTTOM LEFT CORNER</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;dlcorn;, &amp;llcorner;</span>)</td> <td rowspan="2">⌞<i>editorial notation</i>⌟ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+231F</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x231f;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;drcorn;, &amp;lrcorner;</span>) </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">Fullwidth parentheses<sup id="cite_ref-Halfwidth_and_Fullwidth_Forms_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Halfwidth_and_Fullwidth_Forms-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FF5F</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xff5f;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">FULLWIDTH LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS</span></td> <td rowspan="2">⦅...⦆ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FF60</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xff60;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">FULLWIDTH RIGHT WHITE PARENTHESIS</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="24">Technical/mathematical<br />(specialized)<sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical_15-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Superscripts_and_Subscripts_16-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Superscripts_and_Subscripts-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-A_17-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-A-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-B_18-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols-B-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23B8</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23b8;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT VERTICAL BOX LINE</span></td> <td rowspan="2">⎸boxed text⎹ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23B9</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23b9;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT VERTICAL BOX LINE</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23E0</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23e0;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">TOP TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2" style="line-height: 1 !important; text-align: center;"> <p>⏠<br /> tortoise shell brackets<br /> ⏡ </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23E1</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x23e1;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BOTTOM TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+27C5</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x27c5;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT S-SHAPED BAG DELIMITER</span></td> <td rowspan="2">⟅...⟆ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+27C6</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x27c6;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT S-SHAPED BAG DELIMITER</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+27D3</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x27d3;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LOWER RIGHT CORNER WITH DOT</span></td> <td rowspan="2">⟓pullback...pushout⟔ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+27D4</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x27d4;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">UPPER LEFT CORNER WITH DOT</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+27EC</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x27ec;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MATHEMATICAL LEFT WHITE TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;loang;</span>)</td> <td rowspan="2">⟬white tortoise shell brackets⟭ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+27ED</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x27ed;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MATHEMATICAL RIGHT WHITE TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;roang;</span>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2987</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2987;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">Z NOTATION LEFT IMAGE BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2"><i><span class="texhtml">R</span></i>⦇<i><span class="texhtml">S</span></i>⦈ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2988</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2988;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">Z NOTATION RIGHT IMAGE BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2989</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2989;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">Z NOTATION LEFT BINDING BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">⦉<span class="texhtml"><i>x</i>:<b>Z</b></span>⦊ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+298A</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x298a;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">Z NOTATION RIGHT BINDING BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2993</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2993;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT ARC LESS-THAN BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;lparlt;</span>)</td> <td rowspan="2">⦓<a href="/wiki/Inequality_(mathematics)" title="Inequality (mathematics)">inequality</a> sign brackets⦔ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2994</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2994;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT ARC GREATER-THAN BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;rpargt;</span>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2995</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2995;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">DOUBLE LEFT ARC GREATER-THAN BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;gtlPar;</span>)</td> <td rowspan="2">⦕inequality sign brackets⦖ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2996</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2996;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">DOUBLE RIGHT ARC LESS-THAN BRACKET</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;ltrPar;</span>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2997</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2997;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT BLACK TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">⦗black tortoise shell brackets⦘ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2998</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2998;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT BLACK TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+29D8</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x29d8;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT WIGGLY FENCE</span></td> <td rowspan="2">⧘...⧙ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+29D9</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x29d9;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT WIGGLY FENCE</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+29DA</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x29da;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT DOUBLE WIGGLY FENCE</span></td> <td rowspan="2">⧚...⧛ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+29DB</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x29db;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT DOUBLE WIGGLY FENCE</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4">Half brackets<sup id="cite_ref-Supplemental_Punctuation_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Supplemental_Punctuation-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E22</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e22;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">TOP LEFT HALF BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">⸢<i>editorial notation</i>⸣ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E23</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e23;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">TOP RIGHT HALF BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E24</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e24;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BOTTOM LEFT HALF BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">⸤<i>editorial notation</i>⸥ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E25</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e25;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BOTTOM RIGHT HALF BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="6"><a href="/wiki/Small_Form_Variants" title="Small Form Variants">Compatibility variants for CNS 11643</a><sup id="cite_ref-Small_Form_Variants_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Small_Form_Variants-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE59</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe59;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SMALL LEFT PARENTHESIS</span></td> <td rowspan="2">﹙...﹚ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE5A</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe5a;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SMALL RIGHT PARENTHESIS</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE5B</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe5b;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SMALL LEFT CURLY BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">﹛...﹜ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE5C</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe5c;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SMALL RIGHT CURLY BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE5D</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe5d;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SMALL LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">﹝...﹞ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE5E</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe5e;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SMALL RIGHT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Dingbat" title="Dingbat">Dingbats</a><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Dingbats_20-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Dingbats-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2772</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2772;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LIGHT LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET ORNAMENT</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;lbbrk;</span>)</td> <td rowspan="2">❲light tortoise shell bracket ornament❳ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2773</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2773;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LIGHT RIGHT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET ORNAMENT</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&amp;rbbrk;</span>) </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/N%27Ko_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="N&#39;Ko alphabet">N'Ko</a><sup id="cite_ref-Supplemental_Punctuation_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Supplemental_Punctuation-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E1C</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e1c;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT LOW PARAPHRASE BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r866774678">.mw-parser-output .script-nko{font-family:"Conakry","DejaVu Sans",Ebrima,"Noto Sans NKo"}</style><span class="script-nko" dir="rtl">⸜ߒߞߏ⸝</span>&#8206; </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E1D</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e1d;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT LOW PARAPHRASE BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Ogham" title="Ogham">Ogham</a><sup id="cite_ref-Uncode_Ogham_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Uncode_Ogham-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+169B</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x169b;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">OGHAM FEATHER MARK</span></td> <td rowspan="2"><big>᚛ᚑᚌᚐᚋ᚜</big> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+169C</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x169c;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">OGHAM REVERSED FEATHER MARK</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Old_Hungarian_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Hungarian alphabet">Old Hungarian</a></td> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E42</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e42;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">DOUBLE LOW-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK</span></td> <td>⹂ </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Tibetan alphabet">Tibetan</a><sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Tibetan_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Tibetan-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+0F3A</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xf3a;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; 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text-transform: lowercase;">TIBETAN MARK ANG KHANG GYAS</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="8"><a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a> editorial marks<sup id="cite_ref-Supplemental_Punctuation_14-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Supplemental_Punctuation-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E02</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e02;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT SUBSTITUTION BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">⸂...⸃ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E03</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e03;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT SUBSTITUTION BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E04</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e04;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT DOTTED SUBSTITUTION BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">⸄...⸅ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E05</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e05;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT DOTTED SUBSTITUTION BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E09</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e09;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT TRANSPOSITION BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">⸉...⸊ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E0A</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e0a;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT TRANSPOSITION BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E0C</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e0c;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT RAISED OMISSION BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">⸌...⸍ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E0D</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2e0d;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; 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text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT SIDEWAYS U BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="8">Quotation<br />(East-Asian texts)<sup id="cite_ref-CJK_Symbols_and_Punctuation_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CJK_Symbols_and_Punctuation-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+3014</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x3014;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">〔...〕 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+3015</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x3015;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+3016</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x3016;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">〖...〗 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+3017</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x3017;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+3018</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x3018;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT WHITE TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">〘...〙 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+3019</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x3019;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT WHITE TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+301D</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x301d;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">REVERSED DOUBLE PRIME QUOTATION MARK</span></td> <td rowspan="2">〝...〞 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+301E</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x301e;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">DOUBLE PRIME QUOTATION MARK</span><sup id="cite_ref-301E_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-301E-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">Quotation<br />(<a href="/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms" title="Halfwidth and fullwidth forms">halfwidth</a> East-Asian texts)<sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical_15-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Technical-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Halfwidth_and_Fullwidth_Forms_11-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Halfwidth_and_Fullwidth_Forms-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FF62</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xff62;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">HALFWIDTH LEFT CORNER BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">「カタカナ」 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FF63</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xff63;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">HALFWIDTH RIGHT CORNER BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="6">Quotation<br />(fullwidth East-Asian texts)<sup id="cite_ref-CJK_Symbols_and_Punctuation_34-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CJK_Symbols_and_Punctuation-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+300C</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x300c;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT CORNER BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">「表題」 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+300D</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x300d;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT CORNER BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+300E</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x300e;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT WHITE CORNER BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2">『表題』 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+300F</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x300f;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT WHITE CORNER BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+3010</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x3010;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; 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text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2" style="writing-mode: vertical-rl;">︗...︘ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE18</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe18;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET</span><sup id="cite_ref-FE18_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FE18-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE35</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe35;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT PARENTHESIS</span></td> <td rowspan="2" style="writing-mode: vertical-rl;">︵...︶ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE36</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe36;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT PARENTHESIS</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE37</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe37;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT CURLY BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2" style="writing-mode: vertical-rl;">︷...︸ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE38</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe38;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT CURLY BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE39</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe39;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2" style="writing-mode: vertical-rl;">︹...︺ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE3A</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe3a;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE3B</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe3b;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT BLACK LENTICULAR BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2" style="writing-mode: vertical-rl;">︻...︼ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE3C</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe3c;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT BLACK LENTICULAR BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE3D</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe3d;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2" style="writing-mode: vertical-rl;">︽...︾ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE3E</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe3e;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE3F</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe3f;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2" style="writing-mode: vertical-rl;">︿...﹀ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE40</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe40;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE41</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe41;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT CORNER BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2" style="writing-mode: vertical-rl;">﹁...﹂ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE42</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe42;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT CORNER BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE43</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe43;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT WHITE CORNER BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2" style="writing-mode: vertical-rl;">﹃...﹄ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE44</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe44;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT WHITE CORNER BRACKET</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE47</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe47;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT SQUARE BRACKET</span></td> <td rowspan="2" style="writing-mode: vertical-rl;">﹇...﹈ </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE48</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfe48;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET</span> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-301E-77"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-301E_77-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This is fullwidth version of <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2033</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x2033;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">DOUBLE PRIME</span>. In vertical texts, <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+301F</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#x301f;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LOW DOUBLE PRIME QUOTATION MARK</span> is preferred.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Vertical_presentation_forms-80"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Vertical_presentation_forms_80-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">These characters are not used in typical documents. Instead the respective horizontal characters are used and the character that is rendered depends on the <a href="/wiki/Horizontal_and_vertical_writing_in_East_Asian_scripts#In_computing" title="Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts">writing direction</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FE18-81"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FE18_81-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The original name of this character is "Presentation Form For Vertical Right White Lenticular Brakcet&#32;&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>&#93;". Since Unicode character names cannot be changed, this character has the corrected name as an <a href="/wiki/Unicode_alias_names_and_abbreviations" title="Unicode alias names and abbreviations">alias</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=37" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bracket_(mathematics)" title="Bracket (mathematics)">Bracket (mathematics)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_variation_in_quotation_marks" class="mw-redirect" title="International variation in quotation marks">International variation in quotation marks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emoticon" title="Emoticon">Emoticon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_typographic_symbols" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese typographic symbols">Japanese typographic symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_operations" title="Order of operations">Order of operations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triple_parentheses" title="Triple parentheses">Triple parentheses</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bracket&amp;action=edit&amp;section=38" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPointonClark2014406_1-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPointonClark2014">Pointon &amp; Clark 2014</a>, p.&#160;406.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/angle-brackets/">"What Are Angle Brackets ( &lt; ) and How do You Use Them?"</a>. 16 March 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=What+Are+Angle+Brackets+%28+%3C+%29+and+How+do+You+Use+Them%3F&amp;rft.date=2022-03-16&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesaurus.com%2Fe%2Fgrammar%2Fangle-brackets%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABracket" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcArthurMcArthur2005_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMcArthurMcArthur2005">McArthur &amp; McArthur 2005</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeters2007101-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPeters2007101_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPeters2007101_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPeters2007101_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPeters2007">Peters 2007</a>, p.&#160;101.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-unicode-9-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-unicode-9_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Paired_Brackets">"Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm"</a>. <i>Unicode Technical Reports</i>. Unicode Consortium. § 3.1.3 Paired Brackets. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181003140816/http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Paired_Brackets">Archived</a> from the original on 3 October 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 April</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Unicode+Technical+Reports&amp;rft.atitle=Unicode+Bidirectional+Algorithm&amp;rft.pages=%C2%A7+3.1.3+Paired+Brackets&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unicode.org%2Freports%2Ftr9%2F%23Paired_Brackets&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABracket" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTruss2003" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Lynn_Truss" class="mw-redirect" title="Lynn Truss">Truss, Lynne</a> (2003). <i><a href="/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves" title="Eats, Shoots &amp; Leaves">Eats, Shoots &amp; Leaves</a></i>. p.&#160;161. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1592400876" title="Special:BookSources/1592400876"><bdi>1592400876</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Eats%2C+Shoots+%26+Leaves&amp;rft.pages=161&amp;rft.date=2003&amp;rft.isbn=1592400876&amp;rft.aulast=Truss&amp;rft.aufirst=Lynne&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABracket" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBob" class="citation web cs1">Bob, Bemer. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090903184346/http://www.bobbemer.com/BRACES.HTM">"The Great Curly Brace Trace Chase"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bobbemer.com/BRACES.HTM">the original</a> on 3 September 2009<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 September</span> 2009</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=The+Great+Curly+Brace+Trace+Chase&amp;rft.aulast=Bob&amp;rft.aufirst=Bemer&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bobbemer.com%2FBRACES.HTM&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABracket" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBringhurst" class="citation book cs1">Bringhurst, Robert. <i>The Elements of Typographic Style</i>. §5.3.2.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Elements+of+Typographic+Style&amp;rft.pages=%C2%A75.3.2&amp;rft.aulast=Bringhurst&amp;rft.aufirst=Robert&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABracket" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFForsmannDeJong2004" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Forsmann, Friedrich; DeJong, Ralf (2004). <i>Detailtypografie</i> &#91;<i>Detail Typography</i>&#93; (in German). Mainz: Herrmann Schmidt. p.&#160;263. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9783874396424" title="Special:BookSources/9783874396424"><bdi>9783874396424</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Detailtypografie&amp;rft.place=Mainz&amp;rft.pages=263&amp;rft.pub=Herrmann+Schmidt&amp;rft.date=2004&amp;rft.isbn=9783874396424&amp;rft.aulast=Forsmann&amp;rft.aufirst=Friedrich&amp;rft.au=DeJong%2C+Ralf&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABracket" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Basic_Latin-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Basic_Latin_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Basic_Latin_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Basic_Latin_10-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Basic_Latin_10-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf">"C0 Controls and Basic Latin Code Chart"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>The Unicode Standard</i>. Unicode Consortium. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160526182105/http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on 26 May 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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