Braille pattern dots-2356

6-dot braille cells

The Braille pattern dots-2356 ( ) is a 6-dot braille cell with both middle and both bottom dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both upper-middle and both lower-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2836, and in Braille ASCII with the number 7.

Character ⠶ (braille pattern dots-2356)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2356
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10294 U+2836
UTF-8 226 160 182 E2 A0 B6
Numeric character reference ⠶ ⠶
Braille ASCII 55 37

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-2356 is used for punctuation, or otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille " (quote mark), = (equal sign)
English Braille (, ) (parentheses), -gg-
English Contraction were
German Braille eh
Bharati Braille [,

(brackets) [2]

|- |- ! align=left| IPA Braille | square diacritic sign |- ! align=left| Russian Braille | (, ) (parentheses) |- ! align=left| Slovak Braille | " (quote mark) |- ! align=left| Arabic Braille | [, |} (brackets) |- |- |- ! align=left| Thai Braille | ๊ (tone 3) |- |}[1]

Other braille

Japanese Braille (, ) (parentheses) [1]
Korean Braille -ng / ㅇ [1]
Mainland Chinese Braille wang, -uang [1]
Taiwanese Braille wai, -uai / ㄨㄞ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille pi-
Nemeth Braille 7 [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille ? (question mark) [4]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-2356 are Braille patterns 23567, 23568, and 235678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character ⡶ (braille pattern dots-23567) ⢶ (braille pattern dots-23568) ⣶ (braille pattern dots-235678)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-23567 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-23568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-235678
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10358 U+2876 10422 U+28B6 10486 U+28F6
UTF-8 226 161 182 E2 A1 B6 226 162 182 E2 A2 B6 226 163 182 E2 A3 B6
Numeric character reference ⡶ ⡶ ⢶ ⢶ ⣶ ⣶
dots 23567 dots 23568 dots 235678
Gardner Salinas Braille [4] ~ ≈ (approximately equal) = (equal sign)

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 3678, 13678, 34678, and 134678 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-2356, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 02356, 23567, and 023567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character ⣤ (braille pattern dots-3678) ⣥ (braille pattern dots-13678) ⣬ (braille pattern dots-34678) ⣭ (braille pattern dots-134678)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-3678 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-13678 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-34678 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-134678
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10468 U+28E4 10469 U+28E5 10476 U+28EC 10477 U+28ED
UTF-8 226 163 164 E2 A3 A4 226 163 165 E2 A3 A5 226 163 172 E2 A3 AC 226 163 173 E2 A3 AD
Numeric character reference ⣤ ⣤ ⣥ ⣥ ⣬ ⣬ ⣭ ⣭

Kantenji using braille patterns 3678, 13678, 34678, or 134678

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-2356 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 囲 and 囗

Compounds of 伐

Compounds of 戎

Compounds of 弋

Compounds of 戈

Compounds of 冂

Compounds of 亶

Compounds of 我

Compounds of 式

Compounds of 用

Compounds of 或

Compounds of 戔

Compounds of 角

Compounds of 凹

Compounds of 口

Other compounds

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Notes

Look up , , , or in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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  2. "Introduction to Bharati Braille". Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  3. "Nemeth Braille (Mathematics Braille)". Archived from the original on 2012-04-21. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  4. 1 2 "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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