square brackets
Interpolation punctuation marks
Square brackets are the punctuation marks [ and ], used in writing to enclose material inserted into a quotation or to indicate editorial additions: The witness stated, "He [the defendant] was there".
In technical contexts, square brackets denote arrays, optional elements in syntax, or mathematical operations.
British English sometimes uses them where American English uses parentheses.
- punctuationWritten clarity symbols
- subscriptText below the line
- arraysOrdered element collections
- clarificationMaking meaning plain
- omissionFailure to include
intervals · matrices · JSON · IPA · superscript · annotation · citation style · transcription · indexing · sets · typesetting · regular expressions · glyphs · functions · code blocks · editor's note · editing · variables
- bracketsparentheses, parenthesis, curly braces, curly brace, chevrons
- wildcardswildcard, asterisk, question mark, glob, range
- punctuationperiod, comma, colon, apostrophe, semicolon
- code styleindentation, naming conventions, formatting, conventions, consistency
- wiki markupbold, italic, heading, link, template
- symbolssymbols, runes, symbol, asterisks, national symbol
square bracketsparentheses
Curved enclosing punctuation marks
round brackets · curly brackets · braces · angle brackets · chevrons
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