Braille pattern dots-12346

6-dot braille cells

The Braille pattern dots-12346 ( ) is a 6-dot braille cell with both top, both bottom, and the middle left dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both top, both lower-middle, and the upper-middle left dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+282f, and in Braille ASCII with the ampersand: &.

Character ⠯ (braille pattern dots-12346)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12346
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10287 U+282F
UTF-8 226 160 175 E2 A0 AF
Numeric character reference ⠯ ⠯
Braille ASCII 38 26

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-12346 is used to represent a voiceless alveolar or dental fricative, such as /s/ or /s̪/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille Ç
English Braille and
German Braille &, ge
Bharati Braille ष / ષ / ষ / ଷ / ష / ಷ / ഷ / ஷ / ෂ / ص [2]
Icelandic Braille Ý
IPA Braille click modifier
Slovak Braille Ý
Arabic Braille ص
Persian Braille ص
Irish Braille Á
Thai Braille p

[1]

Other braille

Japanese Braille he / へ / ヘ [1]
Korean Braille ul / 울 [1]
Mainland Chinese Braille yuan, -üan [1]
Taiwanese Braille weng, -ong / ㄨㄥ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille nu- -ǎn
Nemeth Braille ! (factorial) [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille & (ampersand) [4]
Algerian Braille ه [1]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-12346 are Braille patterns 123467, 123468, and 1234678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character ⡯ (braille pattern dots-123467) ⢯ (braille pattern dots-123468) ⣯ (braille pattern dots-1234678)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-123467 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-123468 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1234678
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10351 U+286F 10415 U+28AF 10479 U+28EF
UTF-8 226 161 175 E2 A1 AF 226 162 175 E2 A2 AF 226 163 175 E2 A3 AF
Numeric character reference ⡯ ⡯ ⢯ ⢯ ⣯ ⣯
dots 123467 dots 123468 dots 1234678
Gardner Salinas Braille [4]

related 8-dot kantenji patterns

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 23578, 123578, 234578, and 1234578 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-12346, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 012346, 123467, and 0123467 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character ⣖ (braille pattern dots-23578) ⣗ (braille pattern dots-123578) ⣞ (braille pattern dots-234578) ⣟ (braille pattern dots-1234578)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-23578 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-123578 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-234578 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1234578
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10454 U+28D6 10455 U+28D7 10462 U+28DE 10463 U+28DF
UTF-8 226 163 150 E2 A3 96 226 163 151 E2 A3 97 226 163 158 E2 A3 9E 226 163 159 E2 A3 9F
Numeric character reference ⣖ ⣖ ⣗ ⣗ ⣞ ⣞ ⣟ ⣟

Kantenji using braille patterns 23578, 123578, 234578, or 1234578

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-12346 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 玉

Compounds of 冊 and 册

Compounds of 王

Compounds of 将 and 爿

Compounds of 主

Compounds of 片

Compounds of 丙

Compounds of 出

Other compounds

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

Notes

Look up , , , or in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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  2. "Introduction to Bharati Braille" Check |url= value (help). Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  3. "Nemeth Braille (Mathematics Braille)". Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  4. 1 2 "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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