Braille pattern dots-2 explained

The Braille pattern dots-2 is a 6-dot braille cell with the middle-left dot raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with its mid-high left dot raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2802, and in Braille ASCII with the number "1".

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-2 is used to represent a comma or other non-letter symbol or semi-letter.[1]

Table of unified braille values

Italian Braille, (comma)
French Braille, (comma), an
English Braille, (comma) / -ea-
English Contraction-->
German Braille, (comma)
Bharati BrailleAvagraha ऽ / ઽ / ঽ / ଽ / ఽ [2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Braille, (comma)
Russian Braille, (comma)
Slovak Braille, (comma)
Arabic Brailleـَ  fatha
Persian Braille-->
Irish Braille, (comma) / -ea-
Thai Brailleๆ (reduplication mark)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braillesokuon / っ / ッ
Korean Brailler- / ㄹ-
Mainland Chinese Brailletone 2
Taiwanese Brailletone 2
Two-Cell Chinese Braille们 men (suffix)
Nemeth Braillenot an independent sign [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Braille‎-->
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-2 are Braille patterns 27, 28, and 278, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 27 dots 28 dots 278
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] end array element_ (underscore)× (multiplication sign)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-3, Braille pattern dots-13, Braille pattern dots-34 and Braille pattern dots-134.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 3, 13, 34, and 134 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-2, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 02, 27, and 027 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 3, 13, 34, or 134

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-2 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

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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.

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