きっこうかっこ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of きっこうかっこ – see the following entry.

【亀甲括弧】 [noun] (typography) tortoise shell bracket (either of a pair of symbols,〔 〕, sometimes used in Japanese to enclose comments in quoted text)

(This term, きっこうかっこ, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)