Braille pattern dots-12

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

The Braille pattern dots-12 ( ⠃ ) is a 6-dot or 8-dot braille cell with the top two left dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2803, and in Braille ASCII with "B".

Character ⠃ (braille pattern dots-12)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10243 U+2803
UTF-8 226 160 131 E2 A0 83
Numeric character reference ⠃ ⠃
Braille ASCII 66 42

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-12 is used to represent a voiced bilabial plosive, ie /b/, and is otherwise assigned as needed. It is also used for the number 2.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille B
English Braille B
English Contraction but
German Braille B
Bharati Braille ब / ਬ / બ / ব / ବ / బ / ಬ / ബ / බ / ب ‎[2]
Icelandic Braille B
IPA Braille /b/
Russian Braille Б
Slovak Braille B
Arabic Braille ب
Persian Braille ب
Irish Braille B
Thai Braille ั
Luxembourgish Braille b (minuscule)

[1]

Other braille

Japanese Braille i / い / イ [1]
Korean Braille -b / -ㅂ [1]
Mainland Chinese Braille b [1]
Taiwanese Braille ch-, ㄔ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille h- -ì/-ù/-ǜ/tone 4
Nemeth Braille not an independent symbol [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille "b" [4]
Algerian Braille ب ‎[1]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-12 are Braille patterns 127, 128, and 1278, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character ⡃ (braille pattern dots-127) ⢃ (braille pattern dots-128) ⣃ (braille pattern dots-1278)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-127 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-128 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1278
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10307 U+2843 10371 U+2883 10435 U+28C3
UTF-8 226 161 131 E2 A1 83 226 162 131 E2 A2 83 226 163 131 E2 A3 83
Numeric character reference ⡃ ⡃ ⢃ ⢃ ⣃ ⣃
dots 127 dots 128 dots 1278
Gardner Salinas Braille [4] B (capital) β (beta)
Luxembourgish Braille [5] B (capital)

related 8-dot kantenji patterns

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 23, 123, 234, and 1234 are the 8-dot braille patterns related to Braille pattern dots-12, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 012, 127, and 0127 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character ⠆ (braille pattern dots-23) ⠇ (braille pattern dots-123) ⠎ (braille pattern dots-234) ⠏ (braille pattern dots-1234)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-23 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-123 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-234 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1234
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 10246 U+2806 10247 U+2807 10254 U+280E 10255 U+280F
UTF-8 226 160 134 E2 A0 86 226 160 135 E2 A0 87 226 160 142 E2 A0 8E 226 160 143 E2 A0 8F
Numeric character reference ⠆ ⠆ ⠇ ⠇ ⠎ ⠎ ⠏ ⠏

Kantenji using braille patterns 23, 123, 234, or 1234

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-12 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 糸

Compounds of 韋

Compounds of 離 and 隹

Compounds of 井

Compounds of 尹

Compounds of 二

Compounds of 弐

Compounds of 正

Compounds of 生

Other compounds

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

Notes

Look up ⠃ , ⡃ , ⢃ , or ⣃ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "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. 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). Retrieved 30 December 2013.
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