Braille pattern dots-46

6-dot braille cells

The Braille pattern dots-46 ( ) is a 6-dot braille cell with the top and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2828, and in Braille ASCII with a period: "." .

Character ⠨ (braille pattern dots-46)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-46
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10280 U+2828
UTF-8 226 160 168 E2 A0 A8
Numeric character reference ⠨ ⠨
Braille ASCII 46 2E

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-46 is used to represent an unvoiced dorsal plosive, such as /k/ or /q/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille Capital sign
English Braille . (decimal point only), emphasis formatting sign
German Braille $ (dollar sign), ck
Bharati Braille ख / ਖ / ખ / খ / ଖ / ఖ / ಖ / ഖ / ඛ / کھ [2]
Icelandic Braille % (percent sign)
IPA Braille Greek letter fricatives modifier
Russian Braille Capital sign
Slovak Braille Ĺ
Arabic Braille إ

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Other braille

Japanese Braille yōon + handakuten [1]
Korean Braille j / ㅈ [1]
Taiwanese Braille yang, -iang / ㄧㄤ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille Proper name sign
Nemeth Braille decimal point, inner √, italic format, Greek letter sign [3]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-46 are Braille patterns 467, 468, and 4678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character ⡨ (braille pattern dots-467) ⢨ (braille pattern dots-468) ⣨ (braille pattern dots-4678)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-467 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-468 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-4678
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10344 U+2868 10408 U+28A8 10472 U+28E8
UTF-8 226 161 168 E2 A1 A8 226 162 168 E2 A2 A8 226 163 168 E2 A3 A8
Numeric character reference ⡨ ⡨ ⢨ ⢨ ⣨ ⣨
dots 467 dots 468 dots 4678
Gardner Salinas Braille [4] italic indicator roman type indicator

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 58, 158, 458, and 1458 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-46, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 046, 467, and 0467 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character ⢐ (braille pattern dots-58) ⢑ (braille pattern dots-158) ⢘ (braille pattern dots-458) ⢙ (braille pattern dots-1458)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-58 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-158 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-458 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1458
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10384 U+2890 10385 U+2891 10392 U+2898 10393 U+2899
UTF-8 226 162 144 E2 A2 90 226 162 145 E2 A2 91 226 162 152 E2 A2 98 226 162 153 E2 A2 99
Numeric character reference ⢐ ⢐ ⢑ ⢑ ⢘ ⢘ ⢙ ⢙

Kantenji using braille patterns 58, 158, 458, or 1458

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-46 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 仁 and 亻

Compounds of 司 and 旡

Compounds of 爰

Compounds of 尤 and 无

Other compounds

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Notes

Look up , , , or in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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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.
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