Square Brackets

Type it

Ways to write the Square Brackets symbol
UnicodeU+005B U+005D
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Meaning

Group expressions, often around parentheses for nesting. They also mark closed intervals and matrices. Compare with Parentheses and Curly Braces.

How to read it

x ∈ [0, 1]

is read “x is in the closed interval from zero to one”.

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