Braille pattern dots-245 explained

The Braille pattern dots-245 is a 6-dot braille cell with the top right and both middle dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top right and both upper-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+281a, and in Braille ASCII with J.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-245 is used to represent a voiced palatal affricate, fricative, or approximant, such as /dʑ/, /ʑ/ or /j/, and is otherwise assigned as needed. It is also used for the number 0.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleJ, "je"
English BrailleJ
English Contractionjust
German BrailleJ
Bharati Brailleज / ਜ / જ / জ / ଜ / జ / ಜ / ജ / ஜ / ජ / ج ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleJ
IPA Braille/j/
Russian BrailleЖ
Slovak BrailleJ
Arabic Brailleج
Persian Brailleج
Irish BrailleJ
Thai Brailleจ c
Luxembourgish Braillej (minuscule)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braillero / ろ / ロ
Korean Brailleh- / ㅎ
Mainland Chinese Brailler-
Taiwanese Braillec-,q- / ㄘ,ㄑ
Two-Cell Chinese Braillebi- -à
Nemeth Braillenot an independent sign [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Brailleر ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-245 are Braille patterns 2457, 2458, and 24578, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 2457 dots 2458 dots 24578
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] J (capital)○ (function composition)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] J (capital)
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Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-356, Braille pattern dots-1356, Braille pattern dots-3456 and Braille pattern dots-13456.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 356, 1356, 3456, and 13456 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-245, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0245, 2457, and 02457 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 356, 1356, 3456, or 13456

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-245 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 十

Compounds of 鹵

Compounds of 才

Compounds of 辰

Other compounds

[7] [8] [9] [10]

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. 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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