It is used to separate groups of words when, as the writer, you want to emphasize a statement...or use them in place of a colon...or to replace parentheses or a commma.

当你想要强调一项陈述时，它被用来分开一组单词，它们也可以代替冒或圆括或。

I hope you can tell me about the difference between punctuation marks such as the semicolon, the colon and the comma and between round brackets and square brackets.

你能告诉分、冒之间的区别，以及圆括方括之间的区别。

Your last question was about the marks you call round and square brackets.

你的最后一个问题是关于你所说的圆括方括的标点。

Now whenever you want to use a function, you should use parentheses.

现在每当你要使用一个函数时，都应该使用圆括。

So, brackets and parentheses are similar.

所以，方括圆括是类似的。

So those are the pronunciations of those symbols, period, question mark, exclamation point, parentheses, brackets, colon, and semicolon.

所以这些符的读音是：句、问、感叹、圆括、方括、冒分。

Parentheses are round, almost like the letter " O" but only half of it, and you put the first half before the sentence and the last half at the end of the sentence or phrase.

圆括是圆形的， 几乎像字母" O" ， 但只有它的一半，你把前一半放在句子或短语的前面， 后一半放在结尾。