Braille pattern dots-156 explained

The Braille pattern dots-156 is a 6-dot braille cell with the upper left, and middle and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the upper left, and upper-middle and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2831, and in Braille ASCII with a colon: ":".

Unified braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-156 is used to represent a guttural fricative or approximant, such as /h/, /ʜ/, or /ʕ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleÛ, mathematical 5, es-, -es, "est"
English BrailleWh
English Contractionwhich
German Braillesch
Bharati Brailleज्ञ / જ્ઞ / জ্ঞ / ଜ୍ଞ / ඵ / ح ‎[2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Braille/ʃ/
Russian BrailleШ
Slovak BrailleŠ
Arabic Brailleح
Persian Brailleح
Irish Braille-->
Thai Brailleไ◌ ai
Luxembourgish Braille5 (five)
Romanian Brailleș
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braillesa / さ / サ
Korean Brailleyeo / ㅕ
Mainland Chinese BrailleSh
Taiwanese Brailleer, -i / ㄦ,ㄭ
Two-Cell Chinese Brailleju- -éng, 就 jiù
Nemeth Braillenot an independent sign [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille5 [4]
Algerian Brailleـَ (fatḥah) ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-156 are Braille patterns 1567, 1568, and 15678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 1567 dots 1568 dots 15678
Gardner Salinas Brailleℵ (aleph)
Luxembourgish Braille[5] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-268, Braille pattern dots-1268, Braille pattern dots-2468 and Braille pattern dots-12468.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 268, 1268, 2468, and 12468 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-156, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0156, 1567, and 01567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 268, 1268, 2468, or 12468

This listing includes kantenji using braille pattern dots-156 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 都 and ⻏

Compounds of 卩

Compounds of 卵

Compounds of 巷

Compounds of 乍

Compounds of 陸 and ⻖

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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