Braille pattern dots-56

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

The Braille pattern dots-56 ( ⠰ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with the middle and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the upper-middle and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2830, and in Braille ASCII with a semicolon: ;.

Character ⠰ (braille pattern dots-56)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-56
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10288 U+2830
UTF-8 226 160 176 E2 A0 B0
Numeric character reference ⠰ ⠰
Braille ASCII 59 3B

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-56 is used as a punctuation or formatting sign, or otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

English Braille final letter abbreviation
German Braille -ach
Bharati Braille / ன [2]
IPA Braille national orthogarphy (non-IPA) format sign
Slovak Braille lower case mark
Arabic Braille ; (semicolon)
Persian Braille mathematical symbol sign
Thai Braille not an independent sign

[1]

Other braille

Japanese Braille 、 (comma) [1]
Korean Braille ch- / ㅊ [1]
Mainland Chinese Braille ; (semicolon) [1]
Taiwanese Braille ; (semicolon)
Two-Cell Chinese Braille foreign script mark
Nemeth Braille subscript, letter mark [3]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-56 are Braille patterns 567, 568, and 5678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character ⡰ (braille pattern dots-567) ⢰ (braille pattern dots-568) ⣰ (braille pattern dots-5678)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-567 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-5678
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10352 U+2870 10416 U+28B0 10480 U+28F0
UTF-8 226 161 176 E2 A1 B0 226 162 176 E2 A2 B0 226 163 176 E2 A3 B0
Numeric character reference ⡰ ⡰ ⢰ ⢰ ⣰ ⣰
dots 567 dots 568 dots 5678
Gardner Salinas Braille [4] close complex radicand

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 68, 168, 468, and 1468 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-56, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 056, 567, and 0567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character ⢠ (braille pattern dots-68) ⢡ (braille pattern dots-168) ⢨ (braille pattern dots-468) ⢩ (braille pattern dots-1468)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-68 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-168 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-468 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1468
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10400 U+28A0 10401 U+28A1 10408 U+28A8 10409 U+28A9
UTF-8 226 162 160 E2 A2 A0 226 162 161 E2 A2 A1 226 162 168 E2 A2 A8 226 162 169 E2 A2 A9
Numeric character reference ⢠ ⢠ ⢡ ⢡ ⢨ ⢨ ⢩ ⢩

Kantenji using braille patterns 68, 168, 468, or 1468

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-56 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

The kantenji ⢠ (braille pattern dots-68) is used in indicating most of the common (non-banking) number kanji, as well as the classical heavenly stem ordinals.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 勿

Compounds of 右

Compounds of numbers

Compounds of heavenly stems

Other compounds

[5] [6] [7] [8]

Notes

Look up ⠰ , ⡰ , ⢰ , or ⣰ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "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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