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，它们也可以代替冒号或圆括号或逗号。

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.

希望你能告诉分号、冒号和逗号之别，以及圆括号和方括号之别。

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

你最后一个问题是关于你所说圆括号和方括号标点。

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，都应该使用圆括号。

So, brackets and parentheses are similar.

所以，方括号和圆括号是类似。

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

所以这些符号读音是：句号、问号、感叹号、圆括号、方括号、冒号和分号。

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.

圆括号是圆形， 几乎像字母" O" ， 但只有它一半，你把前一半放在句子或短语前面， 后一半放在结尾。