Braille pattern dots-35 explained

The Braille pattern dots-35 is a 6-dot braille cell with the bottom left and middle right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the lower-middle left and upper-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2814, and in Braille ASCII with the number 9.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-35 is used to represent unrounded, close or near-close, front to central vowel, such as /i/, /ɪ/, /ɪ̈/, or /ɨ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille
  • , (math) ×, in, "si"
English Braillein
English Contractionin
German Braillein
Bharati Brailleई / ਈ / ઈ / ঈ / ଈ / ఈ / ಈ / ഈ / ஈ / ඊ / ی ‎[2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Braillesmall capital modifier
Russian Braille-->
Slovak Braille
  • (asterisk)
Arabic Brailleـٍ (tanwin)
Persian Braille-->
Irish Braillein
Thai Braille่ (tone 1)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braille(w)o / を / ヲ
Korean Braille-d / ㄷ
Mainland Chinese Braille-a
Taiwanese Braillewa, -ua / ㄨㄚ
Two-Cell Chinese Brailler-, initial cell of -èr, -ér, -ěr
Nemeth Braille9 [3]
Gardner Salinas Braillesuperscript indicator [4]
Algerian Brailleﻻ ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-35 are Braille patterns 357, 358, and 3578, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 357 dots 358 dots 3578
Gardner Salinas Braille< (less than sign)left superscript
Luxembourgish Braille[5] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-67, Braille pattern dots-167, Braille pattern dots-467 and Braille pattern dots-1467.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 67, 167, 467, and 1467 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-35, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 035, 357, and 0357 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 67, 167, 467, or 1467

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-35 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 貝

Compounds of 斥

Compounds of 具

Compounds of 乙

Compounds of 斤

[6] [7] [8] [9]

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/gs_index.html . 2012-04-20 .
  5. 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.
  6. Web site: ロービジョン相談と光学. 31 January 2014.
  7. Web site: 盲人と文字 -漢点字の世界. 27 December 2013.
  8. Web site: 漢点字. 27 December 2013.
  9. 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.