Braille pattern dots-3

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

The Braille pattern dots-3 ( ⠄ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with the bottom left dot raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the middle-bottom left dot raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2804, and in Braille ASCII with an apostrophe.

Character ⠄ (braille pattern dots-3)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-3
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10244 U+2804
UTF-8 226 160 132 E2 A0 84
Numeric character reference ⠄ ⠄
Braille ASCII 39 27

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-3 is used to represent an apostrophe, accent mark, or other punctuation.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille ' (apostrophe)
English Braille ' (apostrophe)
German Braille . (period)
Bharati Braille Chandrabindu [2]
Icelandic Braille . (period)
IPA Braille . (period)
Slovak Braille ' (apostrophe)
Arabic Braille ء Hamza
Thai Braille   ็ (mai taikhu)

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Other braille

Japanese Braille wa / わ / ワ [1]
Korean Braille -s / ㅅ [1]
Mainland Chinese Braille tone 3 [1]
Taiwanese Braille tone 1
Nemeth Braille ' (apostrophe) [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille ' (close single quote) [4]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-3 are Braille patterns 37, 38, and 378, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character ⡄ (braille pattern dots-37) ⢄ (braille pattern dots-38) ⣄ (braille pattern dots-378)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-37 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-38 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-378
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10308 U+2844 10372 U+2884 10436 U+28C4
UTF-8 226 161 132 E2 A1 84 226 162 132 E2 A2 84 226 163 132 E2 A3 84
Numeric character reference ⡄ ⡄ ⢄ ⢄ ⣄ ⣄
dots 37 dots 38 dots 378
Gardner Salinas Braille [4] begin misc. symbol begin array ` (open single quote)

related 8-dot kantenji patterns

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 7, 17, 47, and 147 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-3, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 03, 37, and 037 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character ⡀ (braille pattern dots-7) ⡁ (braille pattern dots-17) ⡈ (braille pattern dots-47) ⡉ (braille pattern dots-147)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-7 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-17 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-47 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-147
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10304 U+2840 10305 U+2841 10312 U+2848 10313 U+2849
UTF-8 226 161 128 E2 A1 80 226 161 129 E2 A1 81 226 161 136 E2 A1 88 226 161 137 E2 A1 89
Numeric character reference ⡀ ⡀ ⡁ ⡁ ⡈ ⡈ ⡉ ⡉

Kantenji using braille patterns 7, 17, 47, or 147

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-3 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Selector

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Notes

Look up ⠄ , ⡄ , ⢄ , or ⣄ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "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. ↑ "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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