Braille pattern dots-26 explained

The Braille pattern dots-26 is a 6-dot braille cell with the middle left and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the upper-middle left and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2822, and in Braille ASCII with the number 5.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-26 is used to represent an unrounded open-mid to close-mid front vowel, such as /e/, /e̞/, or /ɛ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, a question mark, or is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille? (question mark), mathematical subscript mark, en
English Brailleen
English Contractionenough
German Brailleor
Bharati Brailleऎ / য় / ୟ / ఎ / ಎ / എ / எ / ඒ [2]
Icelandic Braille? (question mark)
IPA Braille/ə/
Russian Braille? (question mark)
Slovak Braille? (question mark)
Arabic Braille-->
Persian Braille-->
Irish Brailleen
Thai Brailleื e͞u
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braille
Korean Braille-m / ㅁ
Mainland Chinese Braillee/o
Taiwanese Brailleê / ㄝ
Two-Cell Chinese Braillew-
Nemeth Braille5 [3]
Gardner Salinas Braillesubscript mark [4]
Algerian Braille‎-->
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-26 are Braille patterns 267, 268, and 2678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 267 dots 268 dots 2678
Gardner Salinas Braille> (greater than sign)left subscript
Luxembourgish Braille[5] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-38, Braille pattern dots-138, Braille pattern dots-348 and Braille pattern dots-1348.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 38, 138, 348, and 1348 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-26, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 026, 267, and 0267 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 38, 138, 348, or 1348

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-26 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 肉 and ⺼

Compounds of 血

Compounds of 皿

Compounds of 奐

Compounds of 孟

Compounds of 互

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.
  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.

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