Braille pattern dots-1234 explained

The Braille pattern dots-1234 is a 6-dot braille cell with both top and all left-side dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both top and both middle-left dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+280f, and in Braille ASCII with P.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-1234 is used to represent a voiceless bilabial plosive, i.e. /p/.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleP, "par"
English BrailleP
English contractionpeople
German BrailleP
Bharati Brailleप / ਪ / પ / প / ପ / ప / ಪ / പ / ப / ප / پ ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleP
IPA Braille/p/
Russian BrailleП
Slovak BrailleP
Arabic Braille-->
Persian Brailleپ
Irish BrailleP
Thai Brailleผ ph
Luxembourgish Braillep (minuscule)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braillene / ね / ネ
Korean Braillewo / ㅝ
Mainland Chinese BrailleP
Taiwanese BrailleP / ㄆ
Two-Cell Chinese Braillen- -ān
Nemeth Braille[3] -->
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Brailleط ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-1234 are Braille patterns 12347, 12348, and 123478, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 12347 dots 12348 dots 123478
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] P (capital)π (pi)Π (Pi)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] P (capital)
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-2357, Braille pattern dots-12357, Braille pattern dots-23457 and Braille pattern dots-123457.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 2357, 12357, 23457, and 123457 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-1234, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 01234, 12347, and 012347 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 2357, 12357, 23457, or 123457

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-1234 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 示

Compounds of 刂 and 力

Compounds of 衷

Compounds of 幵

Compounds of 衣

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.

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