Illustration: At a small printing workshop, an apprentice sorts metal printing pieces beside an older compositor. Two matching curved pieces lie face down on a shallow tray, positioned on opposite sides of a compact group of other overturned pieces.

かっこ

kakko

parentheses, brackets

Example sentences

カッコ内ないの言葉ことばを短縮形たんしゅくけいにしなさい。
Put the words in parentheses into abbreviated form.
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１語ごをかっこに入いれなさい。
Put a word in parentheses.
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この語句ごくは、括弧かっこで囲かこんだ方ほうがいいよ。
You should put parentheses around this phrase.
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