6-dot braille cells
⠀ ⠁ ⠃ ⠉ ⠙ ⠑ ⠋ ⠛ ⠓ ⠊ ⠚ ⠈ ⠘
⠄ ⠅ ⠇ ⠍ ⠝ ⠕ ⠏ ⠟ ⠗ ⠎ ⠞ ⠌ ⠜
⠤ ⠥ ⠧ ⠭ ⠽ ⠵ ⠯ ⠿ ⠷ ⠮ ⠾ ⠬ ⠼
⠠ ⠡ ⠣ ⠩ ⠹ ⠱ ⠫ ⠻ ⠳ ⠪ ⠺ ⠨ ⠸
⠀ ⠂ ⠆ ⠒ ⠲ ⠢ ⠖ ⠶ ⠦ ⠔ ⠴ ⠐ ⠰
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The Braille pattern dots-12345 ( ⠟ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with the all top and middle dots and the bottom left dot raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top four and lower-middle left dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+281f, and in Braille ASCII with Q.

Character information
Preview ⠟ (braille pattern dots-12345)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12345
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10271 U+281F
UTF-8 226 160 159 E2 A0 9F
Numeric character reference ⠟ ⠟
Braille ASCII 81 51

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-12345 is used to represent double consonants, such as /kw/ or /kʃ/ or otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille Q, qu, -que, "que"
English Braille Q
English Contraction quite
German Braille Q
Bharati Braille क्ष / ક્ષ / ক্ষ / କ୍ଷ / క్ష / ಕ್ಷ / ക്ഷ / க்ஷ / ඥ / ق ‎[2]
Icelandic Braille Q
IPA Braille /q/
Russian Braille Ч
Arabic Braille ق
Persian Braille ق
Irish Braille Q
Thai Braille เือ eua
Luxembourgish Braille q (minuscule)

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Other braille

Japanese Braille te / て / テ [1]
Korean Braille in / 인 [1]
Mainland Chinese Braille ch [1]
Taiwanese Braille f / ㄈ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille ni- -āi, 你 nǐ
Algerian Braille ظ ‎[1]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-12345 are Braille patterns 123457, 123458, and 1234578, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character information
Preview ⡟ (braille pattern dots-123457) ⢟ (braille pattern dots-123458) ⣟ (braille pattern dots-1234578)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-123457 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-123458 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1234578
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 10335 U+285F 10399 U+289F 10463 U+28DF
UTF-8 226 161 159 E2 A1 9F 226 162 159 E2 A2 9F 226 163 159 E2 A3 9F
Numeric character reference ⡟ ⡟ ⢟ ⢟ ⣟ ⣟
dots 123457 dots 123458 dots 1234578
Gardner Salinas Braille[3] Q (capital)
Luxembourgish Braille[4] Q (capital)

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-23567, Braille pattern dots-123567, Braille pattern dots-234567, and Braille pattern dots-1234567

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 23567, 123567, 234567, and 1234567 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-12345, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 012345, 123457, and 0123457 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character information
Preview ⡶ (braille pattern dots-23567) ⡷ (braille pattern dots-123567) ⡾ (braille pattern dots-234567) ⡿ (braille pattern dots-1234567)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-23567 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-123567 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-234567 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1234567
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 10358 U+2876 10359 U+2877 10366 U+287E 10367 U+287F
UTF-8 226 161 182 E2 A1 B6 226 161 183 E2 A1 B7 226 161 190 E2 A1 BE 226 161 191 E2 A1 BF
Numeric character reference ⡶ ⡶ ⡷ ⡷ ⡾ ⡾ ⡿ ⡿

Kantenji using braille patterns 23567, 123567, 234567, or 1234567

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-12345 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of ⼿

Compounds of 専 and 專

Compounds of 夬

Compounds of 亭

Compounds of 抽

Compounds of 拘

Compounds of 丁

Other compounds

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

Notes

Look up ⠟ , ⡟ , ⢟ , or ⣟ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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  2. ^ "Introduction to Bharati Braille". Archived from the original on 5 April 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ 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. Archived from the original on 2014-09-08. Retrieved 2013-12-19.
  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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