Braille pattern dots-1

6-dot braille cells

The Braille pattern dots-1 ( ) is a 6-dot or 8-dot braille cell with the top left dot raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2801, and in Braille ASCII with "A".

Character ⠁ (braille pattern dots-1)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10241 U+2801
UTF-8 226 160 129 E2 A0 81
Numeric character reference ⠁ ⠁
Braille ASCII 65 41

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-1 is used to represent open, unrounded vowel sound, like /æ/ or /ɑ/, such as the Latin letter A, Greek alpha, Cyrillic А, Hebrew/Arabic aleph, etc. It is also used to signify the number 1.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille A
English Braille A
German Braille A
Bharati Braille अ / ਅ / અ / অ / ଅ / అ / ಅ / അ / அ / අ [2]
Icelandic Braille A
IPA Braille /a/
Russian Braille А
Slovak Braille A
Arabic Braille ا
Persian Braille ا
Irish Braille A
Thai Braille ◌ะ
Luxembourgish Braille a (minuscule)

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Other braille

Japanese Braille a / あ / ア [1]
Korean Braille g- / ㄱ [1]
Mainland Chinese Braille tone 1 [1]
Taiwanese Braille tone 0
Two-Cell Chinese Braille g- -èn
Nemeth Braille not an independent symbol [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille "a" [4]
Algerian Braille ا [1]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-1 are Braille patterns 17, 18, and 178, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character ⡁ (braille pattern dots-17) ⢁ (braille pattern dots-18) ⣁ (braille pattern dots-178)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-17 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-18 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-178
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10305 U+2841 10369 U+2881 10433 U+28C1
UTF-8 226 161 129 E2 A1 81 226 162 129 E2 A2 81 226 163 129 E2 A3 81
Numeric character reference ⡁ ⡁ ⢁ ⢁ ⣁ ⣁
dots 17 dots 18 dots 178
Gardner Salinas Braille [4] A (capital) α (alpha)
Luxembourgish Braille [5] A (capital)

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 2, 12, 24, and 124 are the 8-dot braille patterns related to Braille pattern dots-1, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 01, 17, and 017 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character ⠂ (braille pattern dots-2) ⠃ (braille pattern dots-12) ⠊ (braille pattern dots-24) ⠋ (braille pattern dots-124)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-24 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-124
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10242 U+2802 10243 U+2803 10250 U+280A 10251 U+280B
UTF-8 226 160 130 E2 A0 82 226 160 131 E2 A0 83 226 160 138 E2 A0 8A 226 160 139 E2 A0 8B
Numeric character reference ⠂ ⠂ ⠃ ⠃ ⠊ ⠊ ⠋ ⠋

Kantenji using braille patterns 2, 12, 24, or 124

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-1 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Selector

Compounds of 一

⢡⠊ - 数 + #1 = 一

Compounds of 亜

⠃⠊ - あ + selector 1 = 亜

[6] [7] [8] [9]

Notes

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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. UNESCO (2013). World Braille Usage. Washington, DC: National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-8444-9564-4.
  6. "ロービジョン相談と光学". Retrieved 31 January 2014.
  7. "盲人と文字 -漢点字の世界". Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  8. "漢点字". Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  9. "漢点字入門" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
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