Corner Brackets in East Asian Languages

Corner brackets are well-suited for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages which are written in both vertical and horizontal orientations. China, South Korea, and Japan all use corner brackets when writing vertically, however usages differ when writing horizontally:

In Japan, corner brackets are used.
In South Korea and the People's Republic of China, English-style quotes are used. At least in China however, double angle brackets are commonly used around book titles.
In North Korea, angle quotes are used.
In the Republic of China (Taiwan), both corner brackets and English-style quotes are used.

White corner brackets are used to mark quote-within-quote segments.

Samples	Unicode (decimal)	Description
「字」	U+300C (12300), U+300D (12301)	Corner brackets Chinese: 引號 (yǐn hào) Japanese: 鉤括弧 (kagikakko)
﹁字﹂	U+FE41 (65089), U+FE42 (65090)
『字』	U+300E (12302), U+300F (12303)	White corner brackets Chinese: 雙引號 (shuāng yǐn hào) Japanese: 二重鉤括弧 (nijū kagikakko)
﹃字﹄	U+FE43 (65091), U+FE44 (65092)
“한”	U+201C (8220), U+201D (8221)	English-style quotes Korean (South Korea)
«한»	U+00AB (171), U+00BB (187)	Angle quotes Korean (North Korea)

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