Braille pattern dots-345 explained

The Braille pattern dots-345 is a 6-dot braille cell with the top and middle right and bottom left dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top and upper-middle right, and lower-middle left dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+281c, and in Braille ASCII with the greater-than sign: >.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-345 is used to represent an unrounded open or near-open front vowel, such as /æ/ or /a/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille@, æ/ä, gl, em, "les"
English Braillear
English Contractionar
German BrailleÄ
Bharati Brailleआ / ਆ / આ / আ / ଆ / ఆ / ಆ / ആ / ஆ / ආ / آ ‎[2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Braille/ɛ/
Russian BrailleЄ
Slovak BrailleÉ
Arabic Braille-->
Persian Braille-->
Irish Braillear
Thai Braillea
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Brailleyo / よ / ヨ
Korean Brailleya / ㅑ
Mainland Chinese Brailleyao, -iao
Taiwanese Braillea / ㄚ
Two-Cell Chinese Brailledi- -ēi, 地 de
Nemeth Braille[3]
Gardner Salinas Braillefraction slash [4]
Algerian Braille‎-->
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-345 are Braille patterns 3457, 3458, and 34578, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner–Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 3457 dots 3458 dots 34578
Gardner Salinas Braille
  • (asterisk)
Luxembourgish Braille[5] ä (minuscule)Ä (capital)
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-567, Braille pattern dots-1567, Braille pattern dots-4567 and Braille pattern dots-14567.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 567, 1567, 4567, and 14567 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-345, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0345, 3457, and 03457 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 567, 1567, 4567, or 14567

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-345 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 店 and 广

Compounds of 矛

Compounds of 予 and 豫

Compounds of 疋

Compounds of 原 and 厂

Compounds of 丗

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/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. 2013-12-19. 2014-09-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20140908010540/http://www.pharmabraille.com/LiteratureRetrieve.aspx?ID=122064. dead.
  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.