Braille pattern dots-135 explained

The Braille pattern dots-135 is a 6-dot braille cell with the top and bottom left, and middle right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top and lower-middle left, and upper-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2815, and in Braille ASCII with the letter "O".

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-135 is used to represent close-mid to open-mid back rounded vowels, such as /o/, /o̞/, or /ɔ/.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleO, "nous"
English Brailleo
English Contraction-->
German BrailleO
Bharati Brailleओ / ਓ / ઓ / ও / ଓ / ఓ / ಓ / ഓ / ஓ / ඕ / و ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleO
IPA Braille/o/
Russian BrailleО
Slovak BrailleO
Arabic Brailleى
Persian Braille-->
Irish BrailleO
Thai Brailleอ [ʔ], ◌อ aw
Luxembourgish Brailleo (minuscule)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Brailleta / た / タ
Korean Braillei / ㅣ
Mainland Chinese Braillewo, -uo
Taiwanese Brailleb- / ㄅ, ? (question mark), ")" (end parenthesis)
Two-Cell Chinese Brailleqi- -ēng
Nemeth Braillelong division sign [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Brailleض ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-135 are Braille patterns 1357, 1358, and 13578, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 1357 dots 1358 dots 13578
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] O (capital)ο (omicron)〉 (close angle bracket)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] O (capital)
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-267, Braille pattern dots-1267, Braille pattern dots-2467 and Braille pattern dots-12467.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 267, 1267, 2467, and 12467 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-135, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0135, 1357, and 01357 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 267, 1267, 2467, or 12467

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-135 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of ⽥

Compounds of 谷

Compounds of 由

Compounds of 曲

Compounds of 尺

Compounds of

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. 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.