Braille pattern dots-13456 explained

The Braille pattern dots-13456 is a 6-dot braille cell with both top, the middle right, and both bottom dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both top, the upper-middle right, and both lower-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+283d, and in Braille ASCII with Y.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-13456 is used to represent a palatal approximant or near-close near-front vowel, such as /j/ or /ʏ/, or otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleY
English BrailleY
English Contractionyou
German BrailleY, el
Bharati Brailleय / ਯ / ય / য / ଯ / య / ಯ / യ / ய / ය / ی ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleY
IPA Braille/y/
Russian BrailleI
Slovak BrailleY
Arabic Brailleئ
Persian Braille-->
Irish BrailleY
Thai Brailleย y
Luxembourgish Brailley (minuscule)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braillemu / む / ム
Korean Brailleoe / ㅚ
Mainland Chinese Braillewai, -uai
Taiwanese Brailleying, -ing / ㄧㄥ, 〕 (end bracket)
Two-Cell Chinese Braillecu- -ǎng
Nemeth Braille[3] -->
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Brailleم ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-13456 are Braille patterns 134567, 134568, and 1345678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 134567 dots 134568 dots 1345678
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] Y (capital)ψ (psi)Ψ (Psi)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] Y (capital)
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-25678, Braille pattern dots-125678, Braille pattern dots-245678 and Braille pattern dots-1245678.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 25678, 125678, 245678, and 1245678 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-13456, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 013456, 134567, and 0134567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 25678, 125678, 245678, or 1245678

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-13456 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 車

せ/食 = 轌

Compounds of 厶

Compounds of 冓

Compounds of 蜀

Compounds of 牟

Compounds of 矣

Compounds of 虫

Compounds of 羽

Compounds of 虱 and 風

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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