Braille pattern dots-456

6-dot braille cells

The Braille pattern dots-456 ( ) is a 6-dot braille cell with all three right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top, upper-middle, and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2838, and in Braille ASCII with the underscore: _.

Character ⠸ (braille pattern dots-456)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-456
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10296 U+2838
UTF-8 226 160 184 E2 A0 B8
Numeric character reference ⠸ ⠸
Braille ASCII 95 5F

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-456 is used to represent lateral approximant, such as /l/, /ʟ/, or /ʎ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille emphasis mark
English Braille initial letter abbreviation mark
German Braille -lich
Bharati Braille ळ / ਲ਼ / ળ / ଲ / ళ / ಳ / ള / ள / ළ [2]
IPA Braille tone letter mark
Russian Braille italic mark
Slovak Braille Ľ

[1]

Other braille

Japanese Braille yōon + dakuten + handakuten [1]
Taiwanese Braille wang, -uang / ㄨㄤ
Nemeth Braille punctuation sign [3]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-456 are Braille patterns 4567, 4568, and 45678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character ⡸ (braille pattern dots-4567) ⢸ (braille pattern dots-4568) ⣸ (braille pattern dots-45678)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-4567 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-4568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-45678
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10360 U+2878 10424 U+28B8 10488 U+28F8
UTF-8 226 161 184 E2 A1 B8 226 162 184 E2 A2 B8 226 163 184 E2 A3 B8
Numeric character reference ⡸ ⡸ ⢸ ⢸ ⣸ ⣸
dots 4567 dots 4568 dots 45678
Gardner Salinas Braille [4] underline indicator underline indicator

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 568, 1568, 4568, and 14568 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-456, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0456, 4567, and 04567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character ⢰ (braille pattern dots-568) ⢱ (braille pattern dots-1568) ⢸ (braille pattern dots-4568) ⢹ (braille pattern dots-14568)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-4568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-14568
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10416 U+28B0 10417 U+28B1 10424 U+28B8 10425 U+28B9
UTF-8 226 162 176 E2 A2 B0 226 162 177 E2 A2 B1 226 162 184 E2 A2 B8 226 162 185 E2 A2 B9
Numeric character reference ⢰ ⢰ ⢱ ⢱ ⢸ ⢸ ⢹ ⢹

Kantenji using braille patterns 568, 1568, 4568, or 14568

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-456 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 氷 and 氵

Compounds of 改 and 攵

Compounds of 曷

Compounds of 冫

Compounds of 永

Other compounds

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Notes

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  3. "Nemeth Braille (Mathematics Braille)". Archived from the original on 2012-04-21. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  4. "Index of Topics in Braille Section". Oregon State University Science Access Project Braille topics. Archived from the original on 2012-04-20. 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). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
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