Where does “dấu ngoặc vuông” come from?

dấu ngoặc vuông (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese vuông, from Middle Chinese 方.

dấu ngoặc vuông (Vietnamese): square brackets

Definitions

  1. square brackets

Ancestry of “dấu ngoặc vuông”, step by step

dấu ngoặc vuông traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese vuông

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesevuôngsquare; right
2Middle Chinese方—

via Vietnamese dấu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesedấumark, sign; diacritic; tone
2Proto-Vietick-toːʔtrace, footprint

via Vietnamese ngoặc

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesengoặca hook
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