Braille pattern dots-26

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

The Braille pattern dots-26 ( ⠢ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with the middle left and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the upper-middle left and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2822, and in Braille ASCII with the number 5.

Character ⠢ (braille pattern dots-26)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-26
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10274 U+2822
UTF-8 226 160 162 E2 A0 A2
Numeric character reference ⠢ ⠢
Braille ASCII 53 35

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-26 is used to represent an unrounded open-mid to close-mid front vowel , such as /e/, /e̞/, or /ɛ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, a question mark, or is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille ? (question mark), mathematical subscript mark
English Braille en
English Contraction enough
German Braille or
Bharati Braille ऎ / য় / ୟ / ఎ / ಎ / എ / எ / ඒ [2]
Icelandic Braille ? (question mark)
IPA Braille /ə/
Russian Braille ? (question mark)
Slovak Braille ? (question mark)
Irish Braille en
Thai Braille ื e͞u

[1]

Other braille

Japanese Braille -w- (gō-yōon [1]
Korean Braille -m / ㅁ [1]
Mainland Chinese Braille e/o [1]
Taiwanese Braille ê / ㄝ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille w-
Nemeth Braille 5 [2]
Gardner Salinas Braille subscript mark [3]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-26 are Braille patterns 267, 268, and 2678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character ⡢ (braille pattern dots-267) ⢢ (braille pattern dots-268) ⣢ (braille pattern dots-2678)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-267 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-268 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2678
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10338 U+2862 10402 U+28A2 10466 U+28E2
UTF-8 226 161 162 E2 A1 A2 226 162 162 E2 A2 A2 226 163 162 E2 A3 A2
Numeric character reference ⡢ ⡢ ⢢ ⢢ ⣢ ⣢
dots 267 dots 268 dots 2678
Gardner Salinas Braille [3] > (greater than sign) left subscript

related 8-dot kantenji patterns

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 38, 138, 348, and 1348 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-26, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 026, 267, and 0267 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character ⢄ (braille pattern dots-38) ⢅ (braille pattern dots-138) ⢌ (braille pattern dots-348) ⢍ (braille pattern dots-1348)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-38 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-138 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-348 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1348
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10372 U+2884 10373 U+2885 10380 U+288C 10381 U+288D
UTF-8 226 162 132 E2 A2 84 226 162 133 E2 A2 85 226 162 140 E2 A2 8C 226 162 141 E2 A2 8D
Numeric character reference ⢄ ⢄ ⢅ ⢅ ⢌ ⢌ ⢍ ⢍

Kantenji using braille patterns 38, 138, 348, or 1348

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-26 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 肉 and ⺼

Compounds of 血

Compounds of 皿

Compounds of 奐

Compounds of 孟

Compounds of 互

Other compounds

[4] [5] [6] [7]

Notes

Look up ⠢ , ⡢ , ⢢ , or ⣢ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "World Braille Usage". UNESCO. Retrieved 2012-04-19..
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Introductino to Bharati Braille". Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Index of Topics in Braille Section". Oregon State University Science Access Project Braille topics. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
  4. ↑ "ロービジョン相談と光学". Retrieved 31 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "盲人と文字 -漢点字の世界". Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  6. ↑ "漢点字". Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  7. ↑ "漢点字入門" (PDF). Retrieved 30 December 2013.