Braille pattern dots-25 explained

The Braille pattern dots-25 is a 6-dot braille cell with both middle dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both upper-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2812, and in Braille ASCII with the number 3.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-25 is used to represent a colon or other punctuation or mathematical operators.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille

(colon), (math) ÷, cr, con

English Braille

(colon), -cc-

English Contractioncon-
German Brailleal
Bharati Brailleञ / ਞ / ઞ / ঞ / ଞ / ఞ / ಞ / ഞ / ஞ / ඤ[2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Brailleː (long vowel)
Russian Braille

(colon)

Slovak Braille

(colon)

Arabic Brailleـْ (sukun)
Persian Braille-->
Irish Braillecon
Thai Brailleู ū
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Brailleー (chōon)
Korean Braille-n / ㄴ
Mainland Chinese Braillewen, -un
Taiwanese Braillewo, -uo / ㄨㄛ
Two-Cell Chinese Brailley- -o/-e
Nemeth Braille3[3]
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Braille-->
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-25 are Braille patterns 257, 258, and 2578, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 257 dots 258 dots 2578
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] + (plus sign)· (multiplication point)" (quote marks)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-36, Braille pattern dots-136, Braille pattern dots-346 and Braille pattern dots-1346.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 36, 136, 346, and 1346 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-25, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 025, 257, and 0257 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 36, 136, 346, or 1346

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-25 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 宿

Compounds of ⼧

Compounds of 元 and 兀

Compounds of 儿 and 丿

Compounds of 亢

Compounds of ⼇

Compounds of 兌

Compounds of 写

Compounds of 冖

Compounds of 与 and 與

Compounds of 中

Compounds of 介

Compounds of 兆

Compounds of 争

Non-compounding

For many kantenji, a middle cell of ⠤ serves only to distinguish between two-cell patterns that could be interpreted in multiple ways, e.g. ⢱⡎ = 淫, while ⢱⠤⡎ = 冰.

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: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.
  8. Web site: 盲人と文字 -漢点字の世界.
  9. Web site: 漢点字.
  10. Web site: 漢点字入門. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131231141822/http://www.kunijima.sakura.ne.jp/temp/taijyukai.pdf. 2013-12-31.

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