Braille pattern dots-1345 explained

The Braille pattern dots-1345 is a 6-dot braille cell with both top, the middle right, and bottom left dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both top, the upper-middle right, and lower-middle left dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+281d, and in Braille ASCII with N.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-1345 is used to represent the alveolar nasal, i.e. /n/, and otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleN, "ne"
English BrailleN
English Contractionnot
German BrailleN
Bharati Brailleन / ਨ / ન / ন / ନ / న / ನ / ന / ந / න / ن ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleN
IPA Braille/n/
Russian BrailleН
Slovak BrailleN
Arabic Brailleن
Persian Brailleن
Irish BrailleN
Thai Brailleน n
Luxembourgish Braillen (minuscule)
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Other braille

Japanese Brailletsu / つ / ツ
Korean Braillee / ㅔ
Mainland Chinese Braillen
Taiwanese Braillen / ㄋ
Two-Cell Chinese Braillec- -āng
Nemeth Braillenot an independent sign [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Brailleص ‎
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Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-1345 are Braille patterns 13457, 13458, and 134578, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 13457 dots 13458 dots 134578
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] N (capital)ν (nu)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] N (capital)
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Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-2567, Braille pattern dots-12567, Braille pattern dots-24567 and Braille pattern dots-124567.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 2567, 12567, 24567, and 124567 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-1345, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 01345, 13457, and 013457 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 2567, 12567, 24567, or 124567

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-1345 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 土

Compounds of 庄

Compounds of 甬

Compounds of 尭

Compounds of 士

Compounds of 売

Compounds of 貫

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.

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