Braille pattern dots-12 explained

The Braille pattern dots-12 is a 6-dot or 8-dot braille cell with the top two left dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2803, and in Braille ASCII with "B".

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-12 is used to represent a voiced bilabial plosive, i.e. /b/, and is otherwise assigned as needed. It is also used for the number 2.[1]

Table of unified braille values

Italian BrailleB
French BrailleB, "bien"
English BrailleB
English Contractionbut
German BrailleB
Bharati Brailleब / ਬ / બ / ব / ବ / బ / ಬ / ബ / බ / ب ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleB
IPA Braille/b/
Russian BrailleБ
Slovak BrailleB
Arabic Brailleب
Persian Brailleب
Irish BrailleB
Thai Brailleั
Luxembourgish Brailleb (minuscule)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braillei / い / イ
Korean Braille-b / -ㅂ
Mainland Chinese Brailleb
Taiwanese Braillech-, ㄔ
Two-Cell Chinese Brailleh- -ì/-ù/-ǜ/tone 4
Nemeth Braillenot an independent symbol [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille"b" [4]
Algerian Brailleب ‎
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Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-12 are Braille patterns 127, 128, and 1278, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 127 dots 128 dots 1278
Gardner Salinas BrailleB (capital)β (beta)
Luxembourgish Braille[5] B (capital)
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Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-23, Braille pattern dots-123, Braille pattern dots-234 and Braille pattern dots-1234.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 23, 123, 234, and 1234 are the 8-dot braille patterns related to Braille pattern dots-12, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 012, 127, and 0127 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 23, 123, 234, or 1234

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-12 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 糸

Compounds of 韋

Compounds of 離 and 隹

Compounds of 井

Compounds of 尹

Compounds of 二

Compounds of 弐

Compounds of 正

Compounds of 生

Other compounds

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: World Braille Usage. UNESCO. 2012-04-19. .
  2. Web site: Introduction to Bharati Braille. 25 April 2013. 5 April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130405042606/http://www.acharya.gen.in:8080/disabilities/bh_brl.php. dead.
  3. Web site: Nemeth Braille (Mathematics Braille) . 2012-04-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120421113105/http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/disabilities/nemeth_brl.php . 2012-04-21 .
  4. Web site: Index of Topics in Braille Section . Oregon State University Science Access Project Braille topics. . 2012-04-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120420124208/http://dots.physics.orst.edu/gs_index.html . 2012-04-20 .
  5. Book: UNESCO. World Braille Usage. 2013. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Washington, DC. 978-0-8444-9564-4. 88. 2013-12-19. 2014-09-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20140908010540/http://www.pharmabraille.com/LiteratureRetrieve.aspx?ID=122064. dead.
  6. Web site: ロービジョン相談と光学. 31 January 2014.
  7. Web site: 盲人と文字 -漢点字の世界. 27 December 2013.
  8. Web site: 漢点字. 27 December 2013.
  9. Web site: 漢点字入門. 30 December 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131231141822/http://www.kunijima.sakura.ne.jp/temp/taijyukai.pdf. 31 December 2013.

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