Braille pattern dots-23 explained

The Braille pattern dots-23 is a 6-dot braille cell with the middle and bottom left dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the two middle-left dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2806, and in Braille ASCII with the number "2".

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-23 is used to represent a voiced bilabial consonant, such as /b/ or /ɓ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as punctuation or accent mark, as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille
(semicolon), br, ui
English Braille
(semicolon), -bb-
English Contractionbe, be-
German Braillebe
Bharati Braille
(semicolon) [2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Braille-->
Russian Braille
(semicolon)
Slovak Braille
(semicolon)
Arabic Brailleـً (fathatan)
Persian Braille-->
Irish Braille-->
Thai Brailleี ī
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braillewi / ゐ / ヰ
Korean Braille-ch / ㅊ
Mainland Chinese Brailletone 4
Taiwanese Braille, (comma)
Two-Cell Chinese Braille-->
Nemeth Braille2 [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Braille‎-->
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-23 are Braille patterns 237, 238, and 2378, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 237 dots 238 dots 2378
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] end array line((open parenthesis)open complex radicand
Luxembourgish Braille[6] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-37, Braille pattern dots-137, Braille pattern dots-347 and Braille pattern dots-1347.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 37, 137, 347, and 1347 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-23, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 023, 237, and 0237 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 37, 137, 347, or 1347

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-23 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 系

Compounds of 乃

Compounds of 及

Compounds of 亥

Compounds of 幼

Compounds of 幺

Compounds of 左

Other compounds

[7] [8] [9] [10]

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:80/gs_index.html . 2012-04-20 .
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Web site: ロービジョン相談と光学. 31 January 2014.
  8. Web site: 盲人と文字 -漢点字の世界. 27 December 2013.
  9. Web site: 漢点字. 27 December 2013.
  10. 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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