Braille pattern dots-125 explained

The Braille pattern dots-125 is a 6-dot braille cell with the top left and both middle dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top left and both upper-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2813, and in Braille ASCII with H.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-125 is used to represent guttural fricatives and approximants, such as /h/, /ħ/, or /ɦ/, and is otherwise assigned as needed. It is also used for the number 8.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleH, "sur"
English BrailleH
English Contractionhave
German BrailleH
Armenian BrailleՀ
Bharati Brailleह / ਹ / હ / হ / ହ / హ / ಹ / ഹ / ஹ / හ / ہ ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleH
IPA Braille/h/
Russian BrailleХ
Slovak BrailleH
Arabic Brailleه
Persian Brailleه
Irish BrailleH, dot accent
Thai Brailleh
Luxembourgish Brailleh (minuscule)
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Other braille

Japanese Brailleri / り / リ
Korean Braillet- / ㅌ
Mainland Chinese Brailleh/x
Taiwanese Braillez / ㄗ
Two-Cell Chinese Braillexi- -ào / 要 yào
Nemeth Braillenot an independent sign [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Brailleد ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-125 are Braille patterns 1257, 1258, and 12578, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 1257 dots 1258 dots 12578
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] H (capital)∞ (infinity)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] H (capital)
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Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-236, Braille pattern dots-1236, Braille pattern dots-2346 and Braille pattern dots-12346.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 236, 1236, 2346, and 12346 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-125, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0125, 1257, and 01257 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 236, 1236, 2346, or 12346

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-125 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 分

Compounds of 今

Compounds of 帚

Compounds of 僉

Compounds of 八

Compounds of 里

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. 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.