Braille pattern dots-15 explained

The Braille pattern dots-15 is a 6-dot braille cell with the top left and middle right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top left and right upper-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2811, and in Braille ASCII with E.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-15 is used to represent unrounded, near-mid, front vowels, such as /e/ or /ɛ/. It is also used for the number 5.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleE
English BrailleE
English Contractionevery
German BrailleE
Bharati Brailleए / ਏ / એ / এ / ଏ / ఏ / ಏ / ഏ / ஏ / එ / ے ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleE
IPA Braille/e/
Russian BrailleЕ
Slovak BrailleE
Arabic Brailleـِ (kasrah)
Persian Braille-->
Irish BrailleE
Thai Brailleัว ua
Luxembourgish Braillee (minuscule)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braillera / ら / ラ
Korean Braillem- / ㅁ
Mainland Chinese Brailleye, -ie
Taiwanese Brailles,x / ㄙ,ㄒ
Two-Cell Chinese Brailleji- -èng
Nemeth Braille[3] -->
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Brailleج ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-15 are Braille patterns 157, 158, and 1578, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 157 dots 158 dots 1578
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] E (capital)ε (epsilon)∈ (element symbol)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] E (capital)
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Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-26, Braille pattern dots-126, Braille pattern dots-246 and Braille pattern dots-1246.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 26, 126, 246, and 1246 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-15, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 015, 157, and 0157 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 26, 126, 246, or 1246

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-15 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 月

Compounds of 胡

Compounds of 五 and 亙

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.