Braille pattern dots-12345 explained

The Braille pattern dots-12345 is a 6-dot braille cell with the all top and middle dots and the bottom left dot raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top four and lower-middle left dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+281f, and in Braille ASCII with Q.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-12345 is used to represent double consonants, such as /kw/ or /kʃ/ or otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleQ, qu, -que, "que"
English BrailleQ
English Contractionquite
German BrailleQ
Bharati Brailleक्ष / ક્ષ / ক্ষ / କ୍ଷ / క్ష / ಕ್ಷ / ക്ഷ / க்ஷ / ඥ / ق ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleQ
IPA Braille/q/
Russian BrailleЧ
Slovak Braille-->
Arabic Brailleق
Persian Brailleق
Irish BrailleQ
Thai Brailleเือ eua
Luxembourgish Brailleq (minuscule)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braillete / て / テ
Korean Braillein / 인
Mainland Chinese Braillech
Taiwanese Braillef / ㄈ
Two-Cell Chinese Brailleni- -āi, 你 nǐ
Nemeth Braille[3] -->
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Brailleظ ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-12345 are Braille patterns 123457, 123458, and 1234578, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 123457 dots 123458 dots 1234578
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] Q (capital)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] Q (capital)
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Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-23567, Braille pattern dots-123567 and Braille pattern dots-234567.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 23567, 123567, 234567, and 1234567 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-12345, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 012345, 123457, and 0123457 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 23567, 123567, 234567, or 1234567

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-12345 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of ⼿

Compounds of 専 and 專

Compounds of 夬

Compounds of 亭

Compounds of 抽

Compounds of 拘

Compounds of 丁

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.
  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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