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U+300C, 「
LEFT CORNER BRACKET

CJK Symbols and Punctuation

U+300D, 」
RIGHT CORNER BRACKET

CJK Symbols and Punctuation
U+FF62, 「
HALFWIDTH LEFT CORNER BRACKET

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
U+FF63, 」
HALFWIDTH RIGHT CORNER BRACKET

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

Translingual

Punctuation mark

  1. Encloses a quotation in some languages. Equivalent in English: " ", “ ”.
    Synonym: corner bracket

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Chinese

Punctuation mark

  1. Encloses a quotation. Only used in traditional Chinese.

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Japanese

Punctuation mark

  1. Encloses a quotation.
  2. (video games, visual novels) Encloses character dialogue.
  3. Encloses the title of a book, movie, etc.
  4. (obsolete) In kanji-katakana mixed writing (before WWII), encloses 外来語 (gairaigo, foreign loanwords) written in katakana to mark them apart from ordinary katakana portions of the text.

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