Braille pattern dots-123456 explained

The Braille pattern dots-123456 is a 6-dot braille cell with all six dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both dots in the top three rows raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+283F, and in Braille ASCII with the equal sign.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-123456 is used to represent a voiced dental/alveolar fricative or aspirant, such as /ð/, /z/, or /dʰ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleÉ, "quoi"
English Braille"for"
English Contraction-->
German Braille% and "es"
Bharati Brailleḍh / ढ / ঢ / ਢ / ઢ / ಢ / ఢ / ඪ / ଢ / ഢ / ڈھ ‎[2]
Icelandic Braille@
IPA Brailleɲ
Russian Braille-->
Slovak Braille=
Arabic Brailleظ
Persian Brailleظ
Irish BrailleÉ
Thai Braille-->
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Brailleme / め / メ
Korean Brailleong / 옹
Mainland Chinese Braillewa, -ua
Taiwanese Braillewen, -un / ㄨㄣ
Two-Cell Chinese Braillenü- -ǎi
Nemeth BrailleOmission indicator [3]
Gardner Salinas BrailleQuantity symbol [4]
Algerian Brailleو ‎
Braille-->

Braille pattern dots-123456 is also used for the tactile feature on Canadian banknotes.

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-123456 are Braille patterns 1234567, 1234568, and 12345678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 1234567 dots 1234568 dots 12345678
Gardner Salinas Braillelarge modifier‡ (double dagger)≡ (identity sign)
Luxembourgish Braille[5] é (minuscule)É (capital)
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-235678, Braille pattern dots-1235678 and Braille pattern dots-2345678.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 235678, 1235678, 2345678, and 12345678 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-123456, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0123456, 1234567, and 01234567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 235678, 1235678, 2345678, or 12345678

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-123456 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 目

Compounds of 自

Compounds of 睿

Compounds of 面

Compounds of 真 and 眞

Compounds of 乂

Compounds of 牙

Compounds of 黽

Compounds of 弗

Compounds of 亀

Compounds of 百

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