Braille pattern dots-123456

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

The Braille pattern dots-123456 ( ⠿ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with all six dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both dots in the top three rows raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+283F, and in Braille ASCII with the equal sign.

Character ⠿ (braille pattern dots-123456)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-123456
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10303 U+283F
UTF-8 226 160 191 E2 A0 BF
Numeric character reference ⠿ ⠿
Braille ASCII 61 3D

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-123456 is used to represent a voiced dental/alveolar fricative or aspirant, such as /ð/, /z/, or /dʰ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille É
English Braille "for"
German Braille % and "es"
Bharati Braille ḍh / ढ / ঢ / ਢ / ઢ / ಢ / ఢ / ඪ / ଢ / ഢ / ڈھ ‎[2]
Icelandic Braille @
IPA Braille ɲ
Slovak Braille =
Arabic Braille ظ
Persian Braille ظ
Irish Braille É

[1]

Other braille

Japanese Braille me / め / メ [1]
Korean Braille ong / 옹 [1]
Mainland Chinese Braille wa, -ua [1]
Taiwanese Braille wen, -un / ㄨㄣ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille nü- -ǎi
Nemeth Braille Omission indicator [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille Quantity symbol [4]
Algerian Braille و ‎[1]

Braille pattern dots-123456 is also used for the tactile feature on Canadian banknotes.

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-123456 are Braille patterns 1234567, 1234568, and 12345678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character ⡿ (braille pattern dots-1234567) ⢿ (braille pattern dots-1234568) ⣿ (braille pattern dots-12345678)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1234567 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1234568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12345678
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10367 U+287F 10431 U+28BF 10495 U+28FF
UTF-8 226 161 191 E2 A1 BF 226 162 191 E2 A2 BF 226 163 191 E2 A3 BF
Numeric character reference ⡿ ⡿ ⢿ ⢿ ⣿ ⣿
dots 1234567 dots 1234568 dots 12345678
Gardner Salinas Braille [4] large modifier ‡ (double dagger) ≡ (identity sign)
Luxembourgish Braille [5] é (minuscule) É (capital)

related 8-dot kantenji patterns

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 235678, 1235678, 2345678, and 12345678 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-123456, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0123456, 1234567, and 01234567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character ⣶ (braille pattern dots-235678) ⣷ (braille pattern dots-1235678) ⣾ (braille pattern dots-2345678) ⣿ (braille pattern dots-12345678)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-235678 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1235678 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2345678 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12345678
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10486 U+28F6 10487 U+28F7 10494 U+28FE 10495 U+28FF
UTF-8 226 163 182 E2 A3 B6 226 163 183 E2 A3 B7 226 163 190 E2 A3 BE 226 163 191 E2 A3 BF
Numeric character reference ⣶ ⣶ ⣷ ⣷ ⣾ ⣾ ⣿ ⣿

Kantenji using braille patterns 235678, 1235678, 2345678, or 12345678

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-123456 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 目

Compounds of 自

Compounds of 睿

Compounds of 面

Compounds of 真 and 眞

Compounds of 乂

Compounds of 牙

Compounds of 黽

Compounds of 弗

Compounds of 亀

Compounds of 百

Other compounds

[6] [7] [8] [9]

Notes

Look up ⠿ , ⡿ , ⢿ , or ⣿ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "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. 1 2 "Index of Topics in Braille Section". Oregon State University Science Access Project Braille topics. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
  5. ↑ UNESCO (2013). World Braille Usage. Washington, DC: National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-8444-9564-4.
  6. ↑ "ロービジョン相談と光学". Retrieved 31 January 2014.
  7. ↑ "盲人と文字 -漢点字の世界". Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  8. ↑ "漢点字". Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  9. ↑ "漢点字入門" (PDF). Retrieved 30 December 2013.
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