Braille pattern dots-2356 explained

The Braille pattern dots-2356 is a 6-dot braille cell with both middle and both bottom dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both upper-middle and both lower-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2836, and in Braille ASCII with the number 7.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-2356 is used for punctuation, or otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille" (quote mark), math) = (equal sign), -gn-, "été"
English Braille (parentheses), -gg-
English Contractionwere
German Brailleeh
Bharati Braille, (brackets) [2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Braillesquare diacritic sign
Russian Braille (parentheses)
Slovak Braille" (quote mark)
Arabic Braille, (brackets)
Persian Braille-->
Irish Braille-->
Thai Braille๊ (tone 3)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braille (parentheses)
Korean Braille-ng / ㅇ
Mainland Chinese Braillewang, -uang
Taiwanese Braillewai, -uai / ㄨㄞ
Two-Cell Chinese Braillepi-
Nemeth Braille7 [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille? (question mark) [4]
Algerian Braille‎-->
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-2356 are Braille patterns 23567, 23568, and 235678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 23567 dots 23568 dots 235678
Gardner Salinas Braille~≈ (approximately equal)= (equal sign)
Luxembourgish Braille[5] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-3678, Braille pattern dots-13678, Braille pattern dots-34678 and Braille pattern dots-134678.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 3678, 13678, 34678, and 134678 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-2356, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 02356, 23567, and 023567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 3678, 13678, 34678, or 134678

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-2356 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 囲 and 囗

Compounds of 伐

Compounds of 戎

Compounds of 弋

Compounds of 戈

Compounds of 冂

Compounds of 亶

Compounds of 我

Compounds of 式

Compounds of 用

Compounds of 或

Compounds of 戔

Compounds of 角

Compounds of 凹

Compounds of 口

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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