6-dot braille cells
⠀ ⠁ ⠃ ⠉ ⠙ ⠑ ⠋ ⠛ ⠓ ⠊ ⠚ ⠈ ⠘
⠄ ⠅ ⠇ ⠍ ⠝ ⠕ ⠏ ⠟ ⠗ ⠎ ⠞ ⠌ ⠜
⠤ ⠥ ⠧ ⠭ ⠽ ⠵ ⠯ ⠿ ⠷ ⠮ ⠾ ⠬ ⠼
⠠ ⠡ ⠣ ⠩ ⠹ ⠱ ⠫ ⠻ ⠳ ⠪ ⠺ ⠨ ⠸
⠀ ⠂ ⠆ ⠒ ⠲ ⠢ ⠖ ⠶ ⠦ ⠔ ⠴ ⠐ ⠰
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The Braille pattern dots-12456 ( ⠻ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with both top, both middle, and the bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both top, both upper-middle, and the lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+283b, and in Braille ASCII with a closing bracket: ].

Character information
Preview ⠻ (braille pattern dots-12456)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12456
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10299 U+283B
UTF-8 226 160 187 E2 A0 BB
Numeric character reference ⠻ ⠻
Braille ASCII 93 5D

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-12456 is used to represent coronal or dorsal flaps, trills, or approximant consonants such as /r/, /ɹ/, /ɽ/, or /ʀ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille Ï, mathematical 7, gr, "grand"
English Braille er
German Braille er
Bharati Braille ड़ / ੜ / ড় / ଡ଼ / ఱ / ಱ / റ / ற / ඈ / ڑ ‎[2]
Icelandic Braille Ú
IPA Braille /ð/
Slovak Braille / (slash)
Thai Braille ง ng
Luxembourgish Braille 7 (seven)

[1]

Other braille

Japanese Braille se / せ / セ [1]
Korean Braille yeong / 영 [1]
Mainland Chinese Braille wan, -uan [1]
Taiwanese Braille wan, -uan / ㄨㄢ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille -ái, 还 hái
Nemeth Braille cancel (close), termination indicator [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille 7 [4]
Algerian Braille ـْ ‎ (sukūn)[1]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-12456 are Braille patterns 124567, 124568, and 1245678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character information
Preview ⡻ (braille pattern dots-124567) ⢻ (braille pattern dots-124568) ⣻ (braille pattern dots-1245678)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-124567 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-124568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1245678
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 10363 U+287B 10427 U+28BB 10491 U+28FB
UTF-8 226 161 187 E2 A1 BB 226 162 187 E2 A2 BB 226 163 187 E2 A3 BB
Numeric character reference ⡻ ⡻ ⢻ ⢻ ⣻ ⣻
dots 124567 dots 124568 dots 1245678
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] †

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-23568, Braille pattern dots-123568, Braille pattern dots-234568, and Braille pattern dots-1234568

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 23568, 123568, 234568, and 1234568 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-12456, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 012456, 124567, and 0124567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character information
Preview ⢶ (braille pattern dots-23568) ⢷ (braille pattern dots-123568) ⢾ (braille pattern dots-234568) ⢿ (braille pattern dots-1234568)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-23568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-123568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-234568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1234568
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 10422 U+28B6 10423 U+28B7 10430 U+28BE 10431 U+28BF
UTF-8 226 162 182 E2 A2 B6 226 162 183 E2 A2 B7 226 162 190 E2 A2 BE 226 162 191 E2 A2 BF
Numeric character reference ⢶ ⢶ ⢷ ⢷ ⢾ ⢾ ⢿ ⢿

Kantenji using braille patterns 23568, 123568, 234568, or 1234568

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-12456 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 食

Compounds of 毛

Compounds of 鳥

Compounds of 魚

Compounds of 酉

Compounds of 酋

Compounds of 千

Compounds of 青

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. ^ "Nemeth Braille (Mathematics Braille)". Archived from the original on 2012-04-21. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  4. ^ a b "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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