"square bracket" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: square brackets [plural]
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  1. Either of a pair of symbols, [ ], used for various purposes, e.g. to enclose text inserted or replaced by an editor, and to indicate various mathematical operations. Related terms: angle bracket, brace, bracket, curly bracket, lenticular bracket, parenthesis, ⎴, ⎵ (english: vertical square brackets) Translations (symbol [ or ]): квадра́тная ду́жка (kvadrátnaja dúžka) [feminine] (Belarusian), сре́дна ско́ба (srédna skóba) [feminine] (Bulgarian), claudàtor (Catalan), parèntesi quadrat (Catalan), 方括號 (Chinese Mandarin), 方括号 (fāngkuòhào) (Chinese Mandarin), 中括號 (Chinese Mandarin), 中括号 (zhōngkuòhào) (Chinese Mandarin), hranatá závorka [feminine] (Czech), závorka [feminine] (Czech), skarp parentes [common-gender] (Danish), vierkant haakje [neuter] (Dutch), vierkante haak [masculine] (Dutch), blokhaakje [neuter] (Dutch), blokhaak [masculine] (Dutch), rekta krampo (Esperanto), hornklombur [neuter, plural] (Faroese), hakasulje (Finnish), hakasulku (Finnish), crochet [masculine] (French), კვადრატული ფრჩხილები (ḳvadraṭuli prčxilebi) (Georgian), eckige Klammer [feminine] (German), αγκύλη (agkýli) [feminine] (Greek), szögletes zárójel (Hungarian), lúibín cearnach [masculine] (Irish), parentesi quadra (Italian), 角括弧 (kakukakko) (Japanese), средна заграда (sredna zagrada) [feminine] (Macedonian), tanda kurung siku (Malay), കോഷ്ഠം (kōṣṭhaṁ) (Malayalam), lhoobeen [masculine] (Manx), taiepa tūtika (Maori), चौकटी कंस (caukṭī kausa) (Marathi), चौकोनी कंस (caukonī kausa) (Marathi), crotchet cârré [masculine] (Norman), hakeparentes [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), nawias kwadratowy [masculine] (Polish), colchete [masculine] (Portuguese), parêntese reto [feminine] (Portuguese), paranteză pătrată [feminine] (Romanian), paranteză dreaptă [feminine] (Romanian), квадра́тная ско́бка (kvadrátnaja skóbka) [feminine] (Russian), camag cheàrnach [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), uglata zagrada [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), zátvorka [feminine] (Slovak), hranatá zátvorka [feminine] (Slovak), oglati oklepaj [masculine] (Slovene), corchete [masculine] (Spanish), hakparentes [common-gender] (Swedish), panalikop (Tagalog), köşeli ayraç (Turkish), köşeli parantez (Turkish), квадра́тна ду́жка (kvadrátna dúžka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), dấu ngoặc vuông (Vietnamese), bach petryal [masculine] (Welsh)
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          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "kvadrátnaja dúžka",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "квадра́тная ду́жка"
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          "roman": "srédna skóba",
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "word": "方括號"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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          "word": "方括号"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "中括號"
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          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "závorka"
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "skarp parentes"
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          "lang": "Dutch",
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          "word": "vierkant haakje"
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          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
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          "word": "blokhaak"
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "rekta krampo"
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          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
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            "plural"
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          "word": "hornklombur"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "hakasulje"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "hakasulku"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "crochet"
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "ḳvadraṭuli prčxilebi",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "კვადრატული ფრჩხილები"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "eckige Klammer"
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        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "agkýli",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "αγκύλη"
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        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "szögletes zárójel"
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        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "lúibín cearnach"
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        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "parentesi quadra"
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          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kakukakko",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "角括弧"
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "sredna zagrada",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "средна заграда"
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          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "tanda kurung siku"
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          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "kōṣṭhaṁ",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "കോഷ്ഠം"
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          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "lhoobeen"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "taiepa tūtika"
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          "code": "mr",
          "lang": "Marathi",
          "roman": "caukṭī kausa",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "चौकटी कंस"
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          "code": "mr",
          "lang": "Marathi",
          "roman": "caukonī kausa",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "चौकोनी कंस"
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          "code": "nrf",
          "lang": "Norman",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "crotchet cârré"
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
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            "masculine"
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          "lang": "Polish",
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          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "nawias kwadratowy"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "colchete"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "parêntese reto"
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "paranteză pătrată"
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "paranteză dreaptă"
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          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "kvadrátnaja skóbka",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "квадра́тная ско́бка"
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          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
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          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
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            "Roman",
            "feminine"
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          "code": "sk",
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            "feminine"
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          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
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          "code": "sl",
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          "word": "oglati oklepaj"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
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          "word": "corchete"
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          "lang": "Swedish",
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          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "panalikop"
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          "lang": "Turkish",
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          "word": "köşeli ayraç"
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "köşeli parantez"
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "kvadrátna dúžka",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "квадра́тна ду́жка"
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          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
          "word": "dấu ngoặc vuông"
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          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
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      "word": "lenticular bracket"
    },
    {
      "word": "parenthesis"
    },
    {
      "word": "⎴"
    },
    {
      "english": "vertical square brackets",
      "word": "⎵"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Terms with Belarusian translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Faroese translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Malay translations",
        "Terms with Malayalam translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Manx translations",
        "Terms with Maori translations",
        "Terms with Marathi translations",
        "Terms with Norman translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Tagalog translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
        "Terms with Welsh translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1905, Royal Irish Academy, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, page 33:",
          "text": "We must, in short, employ a special bracket for operative relations ; and the square bracket is the most convenient. Hence [a + bβ] x denotes that a + bβ operates on x, and [φ]ⁿ denotes that φ operates on itself n - 1 times.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Either of a pair of symbols, [ ], used for various purposes, e.g. to enclose text inserted or replaced by an editor, and to indicate various mathematical operations."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "[",
          "Unsupported titles/`lsqb`#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "]",
          "Unsupported titles/`rsqb`#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "mathematical",
          "mathematical"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "kvadrátnaja dúžka",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "квадра́тная ду́жка"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "srédna skóba",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "сре́дна ско́ба"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "claudàtor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "parèntesi quadrat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "方括號"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fāngkuòhào",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "方括号"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "中括號"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhōngkuòhào",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "中括号"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hranatá závorka"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "závorka"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skarp parentes"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vierkant haakje"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vierkante haak"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "blokhaakje"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blokhaak"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "rekta krampo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "hornklombur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "hakasulje"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "hakasulku"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "crochet"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳvadraṭuli prčxilebi",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "კვადრატული ფრჩხილები"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "eckige Klammer"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "agkýli",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αγκύλη"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "szögletes zárójel"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lúibín cearnach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "parentesi quadra"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kakukakko",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "角括弧"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "sredna zagrada",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "средна заграда"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "tanda kurung siku"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "kōṣṭhaṁ",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "കോഷ്ഠം"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lhoobeen"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "taiepa tūtika"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "caukṭī kausa",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "चौकटी कंस"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "caukonī kausa",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "चौकोनी कंस"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "crotchet cârré"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hakeparentes"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nawias kwadratowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "colchete"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "parêntese reto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "paranteză pătrată"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "paranteză dreaptă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kvadrátnaja skóbka",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "квадра́тная ско́бка"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "camag cheàrnach"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "uglata zagrada"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zátvorka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hranatá zátvorka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "oglati oklepaj"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "corchete"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "hakparentes"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "panalikop"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "köşeli ayraç"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "köşeli parantez"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kvadrátna dúžka",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "квадра́тна ду́жка"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "word": "dấu ngoặc vuông"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "symbol [ or ]",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bach petryal"
    }
  ],
  "word": "square bracket"
}

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