Braille pattern dots-36

6-dot braille cells
⠀ ⠁ ⠃ ⠉ ⠙ ⠑ ⠋ ⠛ ⠓ ⠊ ⠚ ⠈ ⠘
⠄ ⠅ ⠇ ⠍ ⠝ ⠕ ⠏ ⠟ ⠗ ⠎ ⠞ ⠌ ⠜
⠤ ⠥ ⠧ ⠭ ⠽ ⠵ ⠯ ⠿ ⠷ ⠮ ⠾ ⠬ ⠼
⠠ ⠡ ⠣ ⠩ ⠹ ⠱ ⠫ ⠻ ⠳ ⠪ ⠺ ⠨ ⠸
⠀ ⠂ ⠆ ⠒ ⠲ ⠢ ⠖ ⠶ ⠦ ⠔ ⠴ ⠐ ⠰

The Braille pattern dots-36 ( ⠤ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with both bottom dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both lower-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2824, and in Braille ASCII with the hyphen: -.

Character ⠤ (braille pattern dots-36)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-36
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10276 U+2824
UTF-8 226 160 164 E2 A0 A4
Numeric character reference ⠤ ⠤
Braille ASCII 45 2D

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-36 is used to represent hyphens and dashes, and otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille - (hyphen), − (en dash)
English Braille - (hyphen)
English Contraction com-†
German Braille - (hyphen)
Bharati Braille - (hyphen) [2]
IPA Braille - (hyphen - morpheme break)
Russian Braille - (hyphen)
Slovak Braille - (hyphen), – (en dash)
Arabic Braille - (hyphen)
Irish Braille com
Thai Braille consonant modifier

[1]

† Abolished in Unified English Braille

Other braille

Japanese Braille 「 and 」 [1]
Taiwanese Braille 。 (period), ・ (interpunct)
Two-Cell Chinese Braille 〜 (hyphen)
Nemeth Braille - (minus sign) [3]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-36 are Braille patterns 367, 368, and 3678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character ⡤ (braille pattern dots-367) ⢤ (braille pattern dots-368) ⣤ (braille pattern dots-3678)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-367 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-368 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-3678
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10340 U+2864 10404 U+28A4 10468 U+28E4
UTF-8 226 161 164 E2 A1 A4 226 162 164 E2 A2 A4 226 163 164 E2 A3 A4
Numeric character reference ⡤ ⡤ ⢤ ⢤ ⣤ ⣤
dots 367 dots 368 dots 3678
Gardner Salinas Braille [4] markup indicator … (ellipses) ∝ (proportionality)

related 8-dot kantenji patterns

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 78, 178, 478, and 1478 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-36, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 036, 367, and 0367 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character ⣀ (braille pattern dots-78) ⣁ (braille pattern dots-178) ⣈ (braille pattern dots-478) ⣉ (braille pattern dots-1478)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-78 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-178 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-478 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1478
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10432 U+28C0 10433 U+28C1 10440 U+28C8 10441 U+28C9
UTF-8 226 163 128 E2 A3 80 226 163 129 E2 A3 81 226 163 136 E2 A3 88 226 163 137 E2 A3 89
Numeric character reference ⣀ ⣀ ⣁ ⣁ ⣈ ⣈ ⣉ ⣉

Kantenji using braille patterns 78, 178, 478, or 1478

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-36 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 学 and 龸

Compounds of 亠

Compounds of 凡

Compounds of 舜

Compounds of 几

Compounds of 愛

Compounds of 光

Compounds of 文

Compounds of 下 and 卞

Other compounds

[5] [6] [7] [8]

Notes

Look up ⠤ , ⡤ , ⢤ , or ⣤ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  1. 1 2 3 "World Braille Usage". UNESCO. Retrieved 2012-04-19..
  2. ↑ "Introduction to Bharati Braille" Check |url= value (help). Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Nemeth Braille (Mathematics Braille)". Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  4. ↑ "Index of Topics in Braille Section". Oregon State University Science Access Project Braille topics. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
  5. ↑ "ロービジョン相談と光学". Retrieved 31 January 2014.
  6. ↑ "盲人と文字 -漢点字の世界". Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  7. ↑ "漢点字". Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  8. ↑ "漢点字入門" (PDF). Retrieved 30 December 2013.
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