Where does “鉤括弧” come from?

鉤括弧 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 鉤 — hook.

鉤括弧 (Japanese): a corner bracket, either of the pair of brackets, serving as a quotation mark in Chinese and Japanese orthography

Definitions

  1. a corner bracket, either of the pair of brackets, serving as a quotation mark in Chinese and Japanese orthography

Ancestry of “鉤括弧”, step by step

鉤括弧 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 鉤

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鉤hook

via Japanese 括弧

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese括弧a parenthesis; a bracket either of a pair of brackets
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