Small Right Tortoise-Shell Bracket

Use a Unicode input tool, or search きっこうかっこ in a Japanese IME.

If your tool accepts hexadecimal Unicode values, enter U+FE5E. A Japanese IME may list both brackets under きっこうかっこ; choose the closing member.

Is ﹞ the small form of 〕?

Yes: ﹞ is a compatibility form of 〕. The font draws this text character, so its outline and proportions can vary. Unicode associates it with 〕 to preserve a small-form distinction used in the East Asian CNS 11643 character set.

Text normalization—software that standardizes similar characters—can fold ﹞ into 〕 and remove that size distinction. If the small form matters, check whether your text-processing step preserves it.

What does the Japanese kikko bracket mean?

It closes an added note inside a bracketed passage. In Japanese typesetting, the tortoise-shell pair often encloses an editor's or translator's supplement in a quotation; it can also mark a short heading. The family is associated with vertical composition, where bracket forms are adapted to the line's direction.

In China, Hu Shi's 1919 book is a milestone in the modern development of punctuation; a 1951 guide lists 〔〕 among bracket forms used to distinguish functions. A Japanese printing guide in 2012 noted that horizontal use was increasing alongside the brackets' association with vertical composition.