6-dot braille cells
⠀ ⠁ ⠃ ⠉ ⠙ ⠑ ⠋ ⠛ ⠓ ⠊ ⠚ ⠈ ⠘
⠄ ⠅ ⠇ ⠍ ⠝ ⠕ ⠏ ⠟ ⠗ ⠎ ⠞ ⠌ ⠜
⠤ ⠥ ⠧ ⠭ ⠽ ⠵ ⠯ ⠿ ⠷ ⠮ ⠾ ⠬ ⠼
⠠ ⠡ ⠣ ⠩ ⠹ ⠱ ⠫ ⠻ ⠳ ⠪ ⠺ ⠨ ⠸
⠀ ⠂ ⠆ ⠒ ⠲ ⠢ ⠖ ⠶ ⠦ ⠔ ⠴ ⠐ ⠰
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The Braille pattern dots-1456 ( ⠹ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with both top, the middle right, and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both top, the upper-middle right, and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2839, and in Braille ASCII with a question mark: ?.

Character information
Preview ⠹ (braille pattern dots-1456)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1456
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10297 U+2839
UTF-8 226 160 185 E2 A0 B9
Numeric character reference ⠹ ⠹
Braille ASCII 63 3F

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-1456 is used to represent a voiceless dental fricative, i.e. /θ/, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille Ô, mathematical 4, dr, -ant, "dans"
English Braille Th
English Contraction this
German Braille Ch
Bharati Braille थ / ਥ / થ / থ / ଥ / థ / ಥ / ഥ / ථ / تھ ‎[2]
Icelandic Braille Ó
IPA Braille bridge diacritic
Russian Braille Ї
Arabic Braille ث
Persian Braille ث
Irish Braille th
Thai Braille พ ph
Luxembourgish Braille 4 (four)

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Other braille

Japanese Braille su / す / ス [1]
Mainland Chinese Braille yong, -iong [1]
Taiwanese Braille yin, -in / ㄧㄣ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille zu- -áng
Nemeth Braille open fraction [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille 4 [4]
Algerian Braille ـُ ‎(ḍammah)[1]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-1456 are Braille patterns 14567, 14568, and 145678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character information
Preview ⡹ (braille pattern dots-14567) ⢹ (braille pattern dots-14568) ⣹ (braille pattern dots-145678)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-14567 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-14568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-145678
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 10361 U+2879 10425 U+28B9 10489 U+28F9
UTF-8 226 161 185 E2 A1 B9 226 162 185 E2 A2 B9 226 163 185 E2 A3 B9
Numeric character reference ⡹ ⡹ ⢹ ⢹ ⣹ ⣹
dots 14567 dots 14568 dots 145678
Gardner Salinas Braille[4]

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-2568, Braille pattern dots-12568, Braille pattern dots-24568, and Braille pattern dots-124568

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 2568, 12568, 24568, and 124568 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-1456, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 01456, 14567, and 014567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character information
Preview ⢲ (braille pattern dots-2568) ⢳ (braille pattern dots-12568) ⢺ (braille pattern dots-24568) ⢻ (braille pattern dots-124568)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-24568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-124568
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 10418 U+28B2 10419 U+28B3 10426 U+28BA 10427 U+28BB
UTF-8 226 162 178 E2 A2 B2 226 162 179 E2 A2 B3 226 162 186 E2 A2 BA 226 162 187 E2 A2 BB
Numeric character reference ⢲ ⢲ ⢳ ⢳ ⢺ ⢺ ⢻ ⢻

Kantenji using braille patterns 2568, 12568, 24568, or 124568

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-1456 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 発 and 癶

Compounds of 巨

Compounds of 臣

Compounds of 冬

Compounds of 罪, 网, and ⺲

Compounds of 虎, 虍, and 乕

Compounds of 久 and 夂

Compounds of 癸

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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