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Double angle brackets around a title.
Also known as: Chinese title brackets
The Chinese punctuation enclosing the title of a book, film or work, where English would use italics.
Encloses the title of a book, article, film or other work.
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Does the work italics does in English, which a Chinese text cannot: a character set with no cursive form and uniform square proportions gains nothing from slanting, so the emphasis has to be carried by an enclosing mark instead.
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Has a single-chevron form for a work inside a work, so a chapter within a book takes the inner mark and the book the outer — a nesting the English convention handles with quotation marks and italics together.
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A pair of doubled angle brackets, each drawn as two chevrons nested one inside the other, opening and closing around the enclosed text.