Braille pattern dots-126 explained

The Braille pattern dots-126 is a 6-dot braille cell with the top and middle left, and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top and upper-middle left, and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2823, and in Braille ASCII with the less than sign: <.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-126 is used to represent a voiced dorsal fricative or aspirate, such as /ɣ/, /ʁ/, or /gʱ/, or otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified Braille values

French BrailleÊ, mathematical 2, fl,ent, "même"
English Braillegh
English Contraction-->
German Brailleeu
Bharati Brailleघ / ਘ / ઘ / ঘ / ଘ / ఘ / ಘ / ഘ / ඝ / گھ ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleÍ
IPA Braille/ɔ/
Russian Braille-->
Slovak Braille-->
Arabic Brailleغ
Persian Brailleغ
Irish Braillegh
Thai Brailleแ◌ ae
Luxembourgish Braille2 (two)
Braille-->

Other Braille

Japanese Brailleki / き / キ
Korean Braillea / ㅏ
Mainland Chinese Brailleyin, -in
Taiwanese Brailleo / ㄛ
Two-Cell Chinese Braillehu- -í/-ú/-ǘ, 时 shí
Nemeth Brailleradical index (nth root) sign, directly over indicator [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille2 [4]
Algerian Brailleـّ (shaddah) ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-126 are Braille patterns 1267, 1268, and 12678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 1267 dots 1268 dots 12678
Gardner Salinas Braille
Luxembourgish Braille[5] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-238, Braille pattern dots-1238, Braille pattern dots-2348 and Braille pattern dots-12348.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 238, 1238, 2348, and 12348 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-126, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0126, 1267, and 01267 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 238, 1238, 2348, or 12348

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-126 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 木

Compounds of 甚

Compounds of 巳, 已, and 己

Compounds of 其

Compounds of 未, 末, and 本

Compounds of 北

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.