Braille pattern dots-2345 explained

The Braille pattern dots-2345 is a 6-dot braille cell with the top right, both middle, and bottom left dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top right, both upper-middle, and the lower-middle left dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+281e, and in Braille ASCII with T.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-2345 is used to represent an unvoiced dental or alveolar plosive, such as /t/ or /t̪/, and otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleT, "te"
English BrailleT
English Contractionthat
German BrailleT
Bharati Brailleत / ਤ / ત / ত / ତ / త / ತ / ത / த / ත / ت ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleT
IPA Braille/t/
Russian BrailleТ
Slovak BrailleT
Arabic Brailleت
Persian Brailleت
Irish BrailleT
Thai Brailleth
Luxembourgish Braillet (minuscule)
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Other braille

Japanese Brailleto / と / ト
Korean Brailleeol / 얼
Mainland Chinese Braillet
Taiwanese Brailleyan, -ian / ㄧㄢ
Two-Cell Chinese Brailleti- -ā, 他
Nemeth Braillenot an independent sign [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Brailleف ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-2345 are Braille patterns 23457, 23458, and 234578, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner–Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 23457 dots 23458 dots 234578
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] T (capital)τ (tau)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] T (capital)
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Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-3567, Braille pattern dots-13567, Braille pattern dots-34567 and Braille pattern dots-134567.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 3567, 13567, 34567, and 134567 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-2345, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 02345, 23457, and 023457 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 3567, 13567, 34567, or 134567

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-2345 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 戸

Compounds of 髟

Compounds of 卜

Compounds of 并

Compounds of 長

Compounds of 豆

Compounds of 廾

Compounds of 居

Compounds of 老

Compounds of 考

Compounds of 尸

Compounds of 廿

Compounds of 斗

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.