Braille pattern dots-6

6-dot braille cells

The Braille pattern dots-6 ( ) is a 6-dot braille cell with the bottom right dot raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the lower-middle right dot raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2820, and in Braille ASCII with a comma:, .

Character ⠠ (braille pattern dots-6)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-6
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10272 U+2820
UTF-8 226 160 160 E2 A0 A0
Numeric character reference ⠠ ⠠
Braille ASCII 44 2C

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-6 is used as a formatting, punctuation, accent sign, or otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille Antoine number sign
English Braille Capital letter sign
German Braille ' (apostrophe)
Bharati Braille Visarga [2]
IPA Braille subscript sign
Slovak Braille Capital letter sign
Arabic Braille ـّ (shaddah)
Thai Braille low tone consonant modifier

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Other braille

Japanese Braille handakuten [1]
Korean Braille s- / ㅅ [1]
Taiwanese Braille 、 (comma)
Two-Cell Chinese Braille emphasis mark
Nemeth Braille , (comma), /. (decimal separator) [3]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-6 are Braille patterns 67, 68, and 678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character ⡠ (braille pattern dots-67) ⢠ (braille pattern dots-68) ⣠ (braille pattern dots-678)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-67 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-68 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-678
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10336 U+2860 10400 U+28A0 10464 U+28E0
UTF-8 226 161 160 E2 A1 A0 226 162 160 E2 A2 A0 226 163 160 E2 A3 A0
Numeric character reference ⡠ ⡠ ⢠ ⢠ ⣠ ⣠
dots 67 dots 68 dots 678
Gardner Salinas Braille [4] end array ~ (logical not)

related 8-dot kantenji patterns

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 8, 18, 48, and 148 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-6, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 06, 67, and 067 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character ⢀ (braille pattern dots-8) ⢁ (braille pattern dots-18) ⢈ (braille pattern dots-48) ⢉ (braille pattern dots-148)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-8 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-18 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-48 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-148
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10368 U+2880 10369 U+2881 10376 U+2888 10377 U+2889
UTF-8 226 162 128 E2 A2 80 226 162 129 E2 A2 81 226 162 136 E2 A2 88 226 162 137 E2 A2 89
Numeric character reference ⢀ ⢀ ⢁ ⢁ ⢈ ⢈ ⢉ ⢉

Kantenji using braille patterns 8, 18, 48, or 148

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-6 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

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Notes

Look up , , , or in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  1. 1 2 3 4 "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.
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