Braille pattern dots-123 explained

The Braille pattern dots-123 is a 6-dot braille cell with all three left side dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top, upper-middle, and lower-middle left dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2807, and in Braille ASCII with "L".

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-123 is used to represent a lateral approximant, such as /l/, /ʟ/, or /ʎ/, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleL, "le"
English BrailleL
English Contractionlike
German BrailleL
Bharati Brailleल / ਲ / લ / ল / ଳ / ల / ಲ / ല / ல / ල / ل ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleL
IPA Braille/l/
Russian BrailleЛ
Slovak BrailleL
Arabic Brailleل
Persian Brailleل
Irish BrailleL
Thai Brailleล l
Luxembourgish Braillel (minuscule)
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Other braille

Japanese Brailleni / に / ニ
Korean Braillesa / 사
Mainland Chinese Braillel
Taiwanese Braille!
Two-Cell Chinese Braillel- -ī/-ū/-ǖ
Nemeth Braillenot an independent sign [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Brailleس ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-123 are Braille patterns 1237, 1238, and 12378, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 1237 dots 1238 dots 12378
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] L (capital)λ (lambda)Λ (Lambda)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] L (capital)
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Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-237, Braille pattern dots-2347 and Braille pattern dots-12347.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 237, 1237, 2347, and 12347 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-123, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0123, 1237, and 01237 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 237, 1237, 2347, or 12347

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-123 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 水

Compounds of 朮

Compounds of 旨

Compounds of 賈

Compounds of 丞

Compounds of 泡

Compounds of 壬

Compounds of 西

Compounds of 垂

Compounds of 鬼

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: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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