Braille pattern dots-356 explained

The Braille pattern dots-356 is a 6-dot braille cell with the middle right and both bottom dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the upper-middle right and both lower-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2834, and in Braille ASCII with the number 0.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-356 is used to represent various punctuation, often coupled with Braille pattern dots-236 as a closing mark.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille) (close parenthesis), trans-, tr, "sous"
English Braille” (close quote)
English Contractionby †, was
German Braillear
Bharati Brailleझ / ਝ / ઝ / ঝ / ଝ / ఝ / ಝ / ഝ / ඣ / جھ ‎[2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Braillebarred vowel mark
Russian Braille» (close quote)
Slovak Braille) (close parenthesis)
Arabic Brailleclose quote
Persian Braille-->
Irish Braille-->
Thai Braille์ (virama)
Braille-->
† Abolished in Unified English Braille

Other braille

Japanese Braille'n / ん / ン
Korean Braille-h / ㅎ
Mainland Chinese Braille, - -->
Taiwanese Brailleei / ㄟ, yo / ㄧㄛ, (end bracket)
Two-Cell Chinese Brailleru-
Nemeth Braille0 [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Braille‎-->
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-356 are Braille patterns 3567, 3568, and 35678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 3567 dots 3568 dots 35678
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] ← (left arrow) (close bracket)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-678, Braille pattern dots-1678, Braille pattern dots-4678 and Braille pattern dots-14678.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 678, 1678, 4678, and 14678 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-356, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0356, 3567, and 03567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 678, 1678, 4678, or 14678

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-356 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 止

Compounds of 欠

Compounds of 氏

Compounds of 缶

Compounds of 焉 and 正

Compounds of 低

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.
  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.