Where does “ngoặc vuông” come from?

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

ngoặc vuông (Vietnamese): square brackets

Definitions

  1. square brackets

Ancestry of “ngoặc vuông”, step by step

ngoặc vuông traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese vuông

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesevuôngsquare; right
2Middle Chinese

via Vietnamese ngoặc

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesengoặca hook
Every word from Middle Chinese