Braille pattern dots-4

6-dot braille cells
⠀ ⠁ ⠃ ⠉ ⠙ ⠑ ⠋ ⠛ ⠓ ⠊ ⠚ ⠈ ⠘
⠄ ⠅ ⠇ ⠍ ⠝ ⠕ ⠏ ⠟ ⠗ ⠎ ⠞ ⠌ ⠜
⠤ ⠥ ⠧ ⠭ ⠽ ⠵ ⠯ ⠿ ⠷ ⠮ ⠾ ⠬ ⠼
⠠ ⠡ ⠣ ⠩ ⠹ ⠱ ⠫ ⠻ ⠳ ⠪ ⠺ ⠨ ⠸
⠀ ⠂ ⠆ ⠒ ⠲ ⠢ ⠖ ⠶ ⠦ ⠔ ⠴ ⠐ ⠰

The Braille pattern dots-4 ( ⠈ ) is a 6-dot or 8-dot braille cell with the top right dot raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2808, and in Braille ASCII with the "at" sign: @.

Character ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-4
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10248 U+2808
UTF-8 226 160 136 E2 A0 88
Numeric character reference ⠈ ⠈
Braille ASCII 64 40

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-4 is used as a formatting indicator, accent mark, or punctuation.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille superscript
English Braille accent/punctuation composition
Bharati Braille virama/halant[2]
IPA Braille superscript
Slovak Braille Ä, @
Arabic Braille abbreviation indicator

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Other braille

Japanese Braille yōon [1]
Korean Braille g- / ㄱ [1]
Taiwanese Braille tone 3
Two-Cell Chinese Braille homophone discriminator
Nemeth Braille not an independent sign [3]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-4 are Braille patterns 47, 48, and 478, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character ⡈ (braille pattern dots-47) ⢈ (braille pattern dots-48) ⣈ (braille pattern dots-478)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-47 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-48 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-478
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10312 U+2848 10376 U+2888 10440 U+28C8
UTF-8 226 161 136 E2 A1 88 226 162 136 E2 A2 88 226 163 136 E2 A3 88
Numeric character reference ⡈ ⡈ ⢈ ⢈ ⣈ ⣈
dots 47 dots 48 dots 478
Gardner Salinas Braille [4] script indicator definable font indicator

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 5, 15, 45, and 145 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-4, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 04, 47, and 047 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character ⠐ (braille pattern dots-5) ⠑ (braille pattern dots-15) ⠘ (braille pattern dots-45) ⠙ (braille pattern dots-145)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-5 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-15 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-45 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-145
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10256 U+2810 10257 U+2811 10264 U+2818 10265 U+2819
UTF-8 226 160 144 E2 A0 90 226 160 145 E2 A0 91 226 160 152 E2 A0 98 226 160 153 E2 A0 99
Numeric character reference ⠐ ⠐ ⠑ ⠑ ⠘ ⠘ ⠙ ⠙

Kantenji using braille patterns 5, 15, 45, or 145

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-4 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Selector

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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". Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  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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