6-dot braille cells
⠀ ⠁ ⠃ ⠉ ⠙ ⠑ ⠋ ⠛ ⠓ ⠊ ⠚ ⠈ ⠘
⠄ ⠅ ⠇ ⠍ ⠝ ⠕ ⠏ ⠟ ⠗ ⠎ ⠞ ⠌ ⠜
⠤ ⠥ ⠧ ⠭ ⠽ ⠵ ⠯ ⠿ ⠷ ⠮ ⠾ ⠬ ⠼
⠠ ⠡ ⠣ ⠩ ⠹ ⠱ ⠫ ⠻ ⠳ ⠪ ⠺ ⠨ ⠸
⠀ ⠂ ⠆ ⠒ ⠲ ⠢ ⠖ ⠶ ⠦ ⠔ ⠴ ⠐ ⠰
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The Braille pattern dots-246 ( ⠪ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with the middle left, and top and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the upper-middle left, and top and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+282a, and in Braille ASCII with an open bracket: [.

Character information
Preview ⠪ (braille pattern dots-246)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-246
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10282 U+282A
UTF-8 226 160 170 E2 A0 AA
Numeric character reference ⠪ ⠪
Braille ASCII 91 5B

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-246 is used to represent close-mid to open-mid back rounded vowels, such as /o/, /o̞/, or /ɔ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille Œ, mathematical 9, im-, -ition, "son"
English Braille Ow
German Braille Ö
Bharati Braille औ / ਔ / ઔ / ঔ / ଔ / ఔ / ಔ / ഔ / ஔ / ඖ / و ‎[2]
Icelandic Braille Ö
IPA Braille /œ/
Russian Braille Э
Slovak Braille Ó
Arabic Braille أو
Thai Braille ึ eu
Luxembourgish Braille 9 (nine)

[1]

Other braille

Japanese Braille ko / こ / コ [1]
Korean Braille eu / ㅡ [1]
Mainland Chinese Braille ai [1]
Taiwanese Braille yao, -iao / ㄧㄠ, ) (end parenthesis)
Two-Cell Chinese Braille m- -é/-ó, 没 méi
Nemeth Braille cancel (open) [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille 9 [4]
Algerian Braille ـً (tanwīn) ‎[1]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-246 are Braille patterns 2467, 2468, and 24678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character information
Preview ⡪ (braille pattern dots-2467) ⢪ (braille pattern dots-2468) ⣪ (braille pattern dots-24678)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2467 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2468 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-24678
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 10346 U+286A 10410 U+28AA 10474 U+28EA
UTF-8 226 161 170 E2 A1 AA 226 162 170 E2 A2 AA 226 163 170 E2 A3 AA
Numeric character reference ⡪ ⡪ ⢪ ⢪ ⣪ ⣪
dots 2467 dots 2468 dots 24678
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] √ (radical) 〈 (open angle bracket)

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-358, Braille pattern dots-1358, Braille pattern dots-3458, and Braille pattern dots-13458

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 358, 1358, 3458, and 13458 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-246, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0246, 2467, and 02467 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character information
Preview ⢔ (braille pattern dots-358) ⢕ (braille pattern dots-1358) ⢜ (braille pattern dots-3458) ⢝ (braille pattern dots-13458)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-358 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1358 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-3458 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-13458
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 10388 U+2894 10389 U+2895 10396 U+289C 10397 U+289D
UTF-8 226 162 148 E2 A2 94 226 162 149 E2 A2 95 226 162 156 E2 A2 9C 226 162 157 E2 A2 9D
Numeric character reference ⢔ ⢔ ⢕ ⢕ ⢜ ⢜ ⢝ ⢝

Kantenji using braille patterns 358, 1358, 3458, or 13458

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-246 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 子

Compounds of 孑

Compounds of 巽

Compounds of 共

Compounds of 呉

Compounds of 公

Compounds of 工

Compounds of 耒

Compounds of 甲

Compounds of 黄

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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