Braille pattern dots-23456 explained

The Braille pattern dots-23456 is a 6-dot braille cell with the top right, both middle, and both bottom dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top right, both upper-middle, and both lower-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+283e, and in Braille ASCII with a close parenthesis:).

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-23456 is used to represent an unvoiced dental or alveolar plosive, such as /t/ or /t̪/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleÙ, oi, "et"
English Braillewith
English Contraction-->
German Braillest
Bharati Brailleट / ਟ / ટ / ট / ଟ / ట / ಟ / ട / ட / ට / ٹ ‎[2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Braillebreve
Russian BrailleЬ
Slovak BrailleÔ
Arabic Brailleط
Persian Brailleط
Irish BrailleÚ
Thai Brailleท th
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braillemo / も / モ
Korean Braillean / 안
Mainland Chinese Brailleyue, -üe
Taiwanese Brailleya, -ia / ㄧㄚ
Two-Cell Chinese Braillenull consonant, -ǎ
Nemeth Braille) (close parenthesis) [3]
Gardner Salinas Brailleend fraction [4]
Algerian Brailleء ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-23456 are Braille patterns 234567, 234568, and 2345678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 234567 dots 234568 dots 2345678
Gardner Salinas Braille⇌ (equilibrium) (close brace)
Luxembourgish Braille[5] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-35678, Braille pattern dots-135678, Braille pattern dots-345678 and Braille pattern dots-1345678.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 35678, 135678, 345678, and 1345678 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-23456, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 023456, 234567, and 0234567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 35678, 135678, 345678, or 1345678

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-23456 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 門

Compounds of 以

Compounds of 鬥

Compounds of 芻

Compounds of 気 and 气

Compounds of 包 and 勹

Compounds of 区 and 匚

Compounds of 句

Compounds of 凶 and 凵

Compounds of 勺

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.

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