6-dot braille cells
⠀ ⠁ ⠃ ⠉ ⠙ ⠑ ⠋ ⠛ ⠓ ⠊ ⠚ ⠈ ⠘
⠄ ⠅ ⠇ ⠍ ⠝ ⠕ ⠏ ⠟ ⠗ ⠎ ⠞ ⠌ ⠜
⠤ ⠥ ⠧ ⠭ ⠽ ⠵ ⠯ ⠿ ⠷ ⠮ ⠾ ⠬ ⠼
⠠ ⠡ ⠣ ⠩ ⠹ ⠱ ⠫ ⠻ ⠳ ⠪ ⠺ ⠨ ⠸
⠀ ⠂ ⠆ ⠒ ⠲ ⠢ ⠖ ⠶ ⠦ ⠔ ⠴ ⠐ ⠰
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The Braille pattern dots-156 ( ⠱ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with the upper left, and middle and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the upper left, and upper-middle and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2831, and in Braille ASCII with a colon: ":".

Character information
Preview ⠱ (braille pattern dots-156)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-156
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10289 U+2831
UTF-8 226 160 177 E2 A0 B1
Numeric character reference ⠱ ⠱
Braille ASCII 58 3A

Unified braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-156 is used to represent a guttural fricative or approximant, such as /h/, /ʜ/, or /ʕ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille Û, mathematical 5, es-, -es, "est"
English Braille Wh
English Contraction which
German Braille sch
Bharati Braille ज्ञ / જ્ઞ / জ্ঞ / ଜ୍ଞ / ඵ / ح ‎[2]
IPA Braille /ʃ/
Russian Braille Ш
Slovak Braille Š
Arabic Braille ح
Persian Braille ح
Thai Braille ไ◌ ai
Luxembourgish Braille 5 (five)
Romanian Braille ș

[1]

Other braille

Japanese Braille sa / さ / サ [1]
Korean Braille yeo / ㅕ [1]
Mainland Chinese Braille Sh [1]
Taiwanese Braille er, -i / ㄦ,ㄭ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille ju- -éng, 就 jiù
Nemeth Braille not an independent sign [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille 5 [4]
Algerian Braille ـَ (fatḥah) ‎[1]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-156 are Braille patterns 1567, 1568, and 15678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character information
Preview ⡱ (braille pattern dots-1567) ⢱ (braille pattern dots-1568) ⣱ (braille pattern dots-15678)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1567 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-15678
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 10353 U+2871 10417 U+28B1 10481 U+28F1
UTF-8 226 161 177 E2 A1 B1 226 162 177 E2 A2 B1 226 163 177 E2 A3 B1
Numeric character reference ⡱ ⡱ ⢱ ⢱ ⣱ ⣱
dots 1567 dots 1568 dots 15678
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] ℵ (aleph)

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-268, Braille pattern dots-1268, Braille pattern dots-2468, and Braille pattern dots-12468

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 268, 1268, 2468, and 12468 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-156, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0156, 1567, and 01567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character information
Preview ⢢ (braille pattern dots-268) ⢣ (braille pattern dots-1268) ⢪ (braille pattern dots-2468) ⢫ (braille pattern dots-12468)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-268 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1268 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2468 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12468
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 10402 U+28A2 10403 U+28A3 10410 U+28AA 10411 U+28AB
UTF-8 226 162 162 E2 A2 A2 226 162 163 E2 A2 A3 226 162 170 E2 A2 AA 226 162 171 E2 A2 AB
Numeric character reference ⢢ ⢢ ⢣ ⢣ ⢪ ⢪ ⢫ ⢫

Kantenji using braille patterns 268, 1268, 2468, or 12468

This listing includes kantenji using braille pattern dots-156 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 都 and ⻏

Compounds of 卩

Compounds of 卵

Compounds of 巷

Compounds of 乍

Compounds of 陸 and ⻖

Other compounds

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Notes

Look up ⠱ , ⡱ , ⢱ , or ⣱ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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  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.
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