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Right-angle brackets used as quotation marks in East Asia.
Also known as: Kagi kakko, Corner brackets, Japanese quotation marks, Right angle brackets
Corner brackets are the quotation marks of Japanese and traditional Chinese, and they work in vertical text where Latin quotation marks do not — a rotated Latin quote is ambiguous, while a corner bracket rotates into a still-legible corner.
Denote quotation marks in Japanese and traditional Chinese, drawn as two opposed right-angle corners.
Contexts: Software
Function in vertical text, rotating to remain legible where Latin quotation marks become ambiguous.
Contexts: Software
Have a doubled form used for a quotation within a quotation, replacing the alternation of single and double quotes in Latin practice.
Contexts: Software
Two opposed right-angle corner shapes, the opening bracket forming an upper-left corner and the closing a lower-right, set in full-width character cells.