Braille pattern dots-12346 explained

The Braille pattern dots-12346 is a 6-dot braille cell with both top, both bottom, and the middle left dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both top, both lower-middle, and the upper-middle left dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+282f, and in Braille ASCII with the ampersand: &.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-12346 is used to represent a voiceless alveolar or dental fricative, such as /s/ or /s̪/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleÇ, our, "pour"
English Brailleand
English Contraction-->
German Braille&, ge
Bharati Brailleष / ષ / ষ / ଷ / ష / ಷ / ഷ / ஷ / ෂ / ص ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleÝ
IPA Brailleclick modifier
Russian Braille-->
Slovak BrailleÝ
Arabic Brailleص
Persian Brailleص
Irish BrailleÁ
Thai Brailleป p
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braillehe / へ / ヘ
Korean Brailleul / 울
Mainland Chinese Brailleyuan, -üan
Taiwanese Brailleweng, -ong / ㄨㄥ
Two-Cell Chinese Braillenu- -ǎn
Nemeth Braille! (factorial) [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille& (ampersand) [4]
Algerian Brailleه ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-12346 are Braille patterns 123467, 123468, and 1234678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 123467 dots 123468 dots 1234678
Gardner Salinas Braille
Luxembourgish Braille[5] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-23578, Braille pattern dots-123578, Braille pattern dots-234578 and Braille pattern dots-1234578.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 23578, 123578, 234578, and 1234578 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-12346, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 012346, 123467, and 0123467 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 23578, 123578, 234578, or 1234578

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-12346 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 玉

Compounds of 冊 and 册

Compounds of 王

Compounds of 将 and 爿

Compounds of 主

Compounds of 片

Compounds of 丙

Compounds of 出

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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