Braille pattern dots-12456 explained

The Braille pattern dots-12456 is a 6-dot braille cell with both top, both middle, and the bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both top, both upper-middle, and the lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+283b, and in Braille ASCII with a closing bracket: .

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-12456 is used to represent coronal or dorsal flaps, trills, or approximant consonants such as /r/, /ɹ/, /ɽ/, or /ʀ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleÏ, mathematical 7, gr, "grand"
English Brailleer
English Contraction-->
German Brailleer
Bharati Brailleड़ / ੜ / ড় / ଡ଼ / ఱ / ಱ / റ / ற / ඈ / ڑ ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleÚ
IPA Braille/ð/
Russian Braille-->
Slovak Braille/ (slash)
Arabic Braille-->
Persian Braille-->
Irish Braille-->
Thai Brailleง ng
Luxembourgish Braille7 (seven)
Spanish Brailleñ
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braillese / せ / セ
Korean Brailleyeong / 영
Mainland Chinese Braillewan, -uan
Taiwanese Braillewan, -uan / ㄨㄢ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille-ái, 还 hái
Nemeth Braillecancel (close), termination indicator [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille7 [4]
Algerian Brailleـْ ‎ (sukūn)
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-12456 are Braille patterns 124567, 124568, and 1245678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 124567 dots 124568 dots 1245678
Gardner Salinas Braille†
Luxembourgish Braille[5] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-23568, Braille pattern dots-123568, Braille pattern dots-234568 and Braille pattern dots-1234568.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 23568, 123568, 234568, and 1234568 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-12456, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 012456, 124567, and 0124567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 23568, 123568, 234568, or 1234568

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-12456 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 食

Compounds of 毛

Compounds of 鳥

Compounds of 魚

Compounds of 酉

Compounds of 酋

Compounds of 千

Compounds of 青

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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