Braille pattern dots-1246 explained

The Braille pattern dots-1246 is a 6-dot braille cell with both top, the middle left, and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both top, the upper-middle left, and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+282b, and in Braille ASCII with the dollar sign: $.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-1246 is used to represent a voiced dental or alveolar plosive, such as /d/ or /d̪/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleË, mathematical 6, pl, "plus"
English Brailleed
English Contraction-->
German Brailleein
Bharati Brailleड / ਡ / ડ / ড / ଡ / డ / ಡ / ഡ / ඩ / ڈ ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleÞ
IPA Braille/ŋ/
Russian BrailleЯ
Slovak BrailleŇ
Arabic Brailleض
Persian Brailleض
Irish Brailleed
Thai Brailleฟ f
Luxembourgish Braille6 (six)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Brailleke / け / ケ
Korean Braillega / 가
Mainland Chinese Brailleya, -ia
Taiwanese Braillewei, -ui / ㄨㄟ
Two-Cell Chinese Brailleshu- -án
Nemeth Braillegeometric symbol prefix [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille6 [4]
Algerian Brailleـِ (kasrah) ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-1246 are Braille patterns 12467, 12468, and 124678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 12467 dots 12468 dots 124678
Gardner Salinas Braille
Luxembourgish Braille[5] ë (minuscule)Ë (capital)
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Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-2358, Braille pattern dots-12358, Braille pattern dots-23458 and Braille pattern dots-123458.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 2358, 12358, 23458, and 123458 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-1246, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 01246, 12467, and 012467 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 2358, 12358, 23458, or 123458

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-1246 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 犬

Compounds of 天

Compounds of 太

Compounds of 夫

Compounds of 夭

Compounds of 咢

Compounds of 失 and 夸

Compounds of 鼬 and 鼡

Compounds of 猫 and ⺨

Compounds of 大

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.

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