Braille pattern dots-24 explained

The Braille pattern dots-24 is a 6-dot braille cell with the top right and middle left dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top right and upper-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+280a, and in Braille ASCII with I.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-24 is used to represent unrounded, close or near-close, front vowel, such as /i/, /ɪ/, or /ɨ/. It is also used for the number 9.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleI, "il"
English BrailleI
English Contraction-->
German BrailleI
Bharati Brailleइ / ਇ / ઇ / ই / ଇ / ఇ / ಇ / ഇ / இ / ඉ [2]
Icelandic BrailleI
IPA Braille/i/
Russian BrailleИ
Slovak BrailleI
Arabic Brailleي
Persian Brailleى
Irish BrailleI
Thai Brailleโ◌ o
Luxembourgish Braillei (minuscule)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Brailleo / お / オ
Korean Brailled- / ㄷ
Mainland Chinese Brailleyi, -i
Taiwanese Braillesh- / ㄕ
Two-Cell Chinese Brailleb- -è/-ò
Nemeth Braille[3] -->
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Brailleذ ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-24 are Braille patterns 247, 248, and 2478, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 247 dots 248 dots 2478
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] I (capital)ι (iota)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] I (capital)
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-35, Braille pattern dots-135, Braille pattern dots-345 and Braille pattern dots-1345.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 35, 135, 345, and 1345 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-24, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 024, 247, and 0247 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 35, 135, 345, or 1345

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-24 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 頁

Compounds of 丸

Compounds of 君

Compounds of 首

Compounds of 九

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.
  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. 2013-12-19. 2014-09-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20140908010540/http://www.pharmabraille.com/LiteratureRetrieve.aspx?ID=122064. dead.
  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.