Braille pattern dots-1456 explained

The Braille pattern dots-1456 is a 6-dot braille cell with both top, the middle right, and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both top, the upper-middle right, and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2839, and in Braille ASCII with a question mark: ?.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-1456 is used to represent a voiceless dental fricative, i.e. /θ/, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleÔ, mathematical 4, dr, -ant, "dans"
English BrailleTh
English Contractionthis
German BrailleCh
Bharati Brailleथ / ਥ / થ / থ / ଥ / థ / ಥ / ഥ / ථ / تھ ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleÓ
IPA Braillebridge diacritic
Russian BrailleЇ
Slovak Braille-->
Arabic Brailleث
Persian Brailleث
Irish Brailleth
Thai Brailleพ ph
Luxembourgish Braille4 (four)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braillesu / す / ス
Korean Braille/ -->
Mainland Chinese Brailleyong, -iong
Taiwanese Brailleyin, -in / ㄧㄣ
Two-Cell Chinese Braillezu- -áng
Nemeth Brailleopen fraction [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille4 [4]
Algerian Brailleـُ ‎(ḍammah)
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-1456 are Braille patterns 14567, 14568, and 145678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 14567 dots 14568 dots 145678
Gardner Salinas Braille
Luxembourgish Braille[5] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-2568, Braille pattern dots-12568, Braille pattern dots-24568 and Braille pattern dots-124568.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 2568, 12568, 24568, and 124568 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-1456, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 01456, 14567, and 014567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 2568, 12568, 24568, or 124568

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-1456 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 発 and 癶

Compounds of 巨

Compounds of 臣

Compounds of 冬

Compounds of 罪, 网, and ⺲

Compounds of 虎, 虍, and 乕

Compounds of 久 and 夂

Compounds of 癸

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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