Braille pattern dots-1356 explained

The Braille pattern dots-1356 is a 6-dot braille cell with the top left, middle right, and both bottom dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top left, upper-middle right, and both lower-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2835, and in Braille ASCII with Z.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-1356 is used to represent a voiced alveolar sibilant, i.e. /z/, or otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleZ, -ez, "elle"
English BrailleZ
English Contractionas
German BrailleZ
Bharati Brailleज़ / ਜ਼ / ණ / ز ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleZ
IPA Braille/z/
Russian BrailleЗ
Slovak BrailleZ
Arabic Brailleز
Persian Brailleز
Irish BrailleZ
Thai Brailleำ am
Luxembourgish Braillez (minuscule)
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Other braille

Japanese Braillema / ま / マ
Korean Brailleeun / 은
Mainland Chinese Braillez
Taiwanese Brailleeng / ㄥ
Two-Cell Chinese Braillequ- -ěng, 我 wǒ
Nemeth Braille[3] -->
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Brailleن ‎
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Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-1356 are Braille patterns 13567, 13568, and 135678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 13567 dots 13568 dots 135678
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] Z (capital)ζ (zeta)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] Z (capital)
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Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-2678, Braille pattern dots-12678, Braille pattern dots-24678 and Braille pattern dots-124678.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 2678, 12678, 24678, and 124678 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-1356, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 01356, 13567, and 013567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 2678, 12678, 24678, or 124678

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-1356 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 石

Compounds of 亟

Compounds of 了

Compounds of 曼

Compounds of 辟

Compounds of 立

Compounds of 寵

Compounds of 万

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.
  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. 2013-12-19. 2014-09-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20140908010540/http://www.pharmabraille.com/LiteratureRetrieve.aspx?ID=122064. dead.
  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.

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