6-dot braille cells
⠀ ⠁ ⠃ ⠉ ⠙ ⠑ ⠋ ⠛ ⠓ ⠊ ⠚ ⠈ ⠘
⠄ ⠅ ⠇ ⠍ ⠝ ⠕ ⠏ ⠟ ⠗ ⠎ ⠞ ⠌ ⠜
⠤ ⠥ ⠧ ⠭ ⠽ ⠵ ⠯ ⠿ ⠷ ⠮ ⠾ ⠬ ⠼
⠠ ⠡ ⠣ ⠩ ⠹ ⠱ ⠫ ⠻ ⠳ ⠪ ⠺ ⠨ ⠸
⠀ ⠂ ⠆ ⠒ ⠲ ⠢ ⠖ ⠶ ⠦ ⠔ ⠴ ⠐ ⠰
⠝
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The Braille pattern dots-25 ( ⠒ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with both middle dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both upper-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2812, and in Braille ASCII with the number 3.

Character information
Preview ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-25
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10258 U+2812
UTF-8 226 160 146 E2 A0 92
Numeric character reference ⠒ ⠒
Braille ASCII 51 33

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-25 is used to represent a colon or other punctuation or mathematical operators.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille : (colon), (math) ÷, cr, con
English Braille : (colon), -cc-
English Contraction con-
German Braille al
Bharati Braille ञ / ਞ / ઞ / ঞ / ଞ / ఞ / ಞ / ഞ / ஞ / ඤ[2]
IPA Braille ː (long vowel)
Russian Braille : (colon)
Slovak Braille : (colon)
Arabic Braille ـْ (sukun)
Irish Braille con
Thai Braille ู ū

[1]

Other braille

Japanese Braille ー (chōon)[1]
Korean Braille -n / ㄴ[1]
Mainland Chinese Braille wen, -un[1]
Taiwanese Braille wo, -uo / ㄨㄛ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille y- -o/-e
Nemeth Braille 3[3]

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-25 are Braille patterns 257, 258, and 2578, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character information
Preview ⡒ (braille pattern dots-257) ⢒ (braille pattern dots-258) ⣒ (braille pattern dots-2578)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-257 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-258 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2578
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 10322 U+2852 10386 U+2892 10450 U+28D2
UTF-8 226 161 146 E2 A1 92 226 162 146 E2 A2 92 226 163 146 E2 A3 92
Numeric character reference ⡒ ⡒ ⢒ ⢒ ⣒ ⣒
dots 257 dots 258 dots 2578
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] + (plus sign) · (multiplication point) " (quote marks)

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-36, Braille pattern dots-136, Braille pattern dots-346, and Braille pattern dots-1346

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 36, 136, 346, and 1346 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-25, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 025, 257, and 0257 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character information
Preview ⠤ (braille pattern dots-36) ⠥ (braille pattern dots-136) ⠬ (braille pattern dots-346) ⠭ (braille pattern dots-1346)
Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-36 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-136 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-346 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1346
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 10276 U+2824 10277 U+2825 10284 U+282C 10285 U+282D
UTF-8 226 160 164 E2 A0 A4 226 160 165 E2 A0 A5 226 160 172 E2 A0 AC 226 160 173 E2 A0 AD
Numeric character reference ⠤ ⠤ ⠥ ⠥ ⠬ ⠬ ⠭ ⠭

Kantenji using braille patterns 36, 136, 346, or 1346

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-25 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 宿

Compounds of ⼧

Compounds of 元 and 兀

Compounds of 儿 and 丿

Compounds of 亢

Compounds of ⼇

Compounds of 兌

Compounds of 写

Compounds of 冖

Compounds of 与 and 與

Compounds of 中

Compounds of 介

Compounds of 兆

Compounds of 争

Non-compounding

For many kantenji, a middle cell of ⠤ serves only to distinguish between two-cell patterns that could be interpreted in multiple ways, e.g. ⢱⡎ = 淫, while ⢱⠤⡎ = 冰.

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. ^ "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".
  6. ^ "盲人と文字 -漢点字の世界".
  7. ^ "漢点字".
  8. ^ "漢点字入門" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-31.
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