Braille pattern dots-16 explained

The Braille pattern dots-16 is a 6-dot braille cell with the top left and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top left and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2821, and in Braille ASCII with the asterisk: *.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-16 is used to represent the unvoiced alveolar or palatal affricate, such as /tʃ/ or /tɕ/, or otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleÂ, mathematical 1, fr, -ation, "tout"
English BrailleCh
English Contractionchild
German BrailleAu
Bharati Brailleछ / ਛ / છ / ছ / ଛ / ఛ / ಛ / ഛ / ඡ / چھ ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleÁ
IPA Braille/ɑ/
Russian BrailleЁ
Slovak BrailleÁ
Arabic Brailleة
Persian Braille-->
Irish BrailleCh
Thai Braille◌า ā
Luxembourgish Braille1 (one)
Romanian Brailleă
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Brailleka / か / カ
Korean Brailleyeon / 연
Mainland Chinese Brailleying, -ing
Taiwanese Brailleyi, -i / ㄧ
Two-Cell Chinese Braillegu- -én
Nemeth Braille· (multiplication dot) [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Brailleة ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-16 are Braille patterns 167, 168, and 1678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 167 dots 168 dots 1678
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] variant modifier\ (backslash)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-28, Braille pattern dots-128, Braille pattern dots-248 and Braille pattern dots-1248.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 28, 128, 248, and 1248 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-16, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 016, 167, and 0167 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 28, 128, 248, or 1248

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-16 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 金

Compounds of 于

Compounds of 咼

Compounds of 干

Compounds of 朱

Compounds of 瓦

Compounds of 川

Compounds of 州

Compounds of 鈎

Compounds of 可

Compounds of 赤

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.
  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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