Braille pattern dots-2456 explained

The Braille pattern dots-2456 is a 6-dot braille cell with the top right, both middle, and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top right, both upper-middle, and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+283a, and in Braille ASCII with W.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-2456 is used to represent the labio-velar approximant, /w/, or otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleW, om, -tt-, "tous"
English BrailleW
English contractionwill
German BrailleW
Bharati Brailleठ / ਠ / ઠ / ঠ / ଠ / ఠ / ಠ / ഠ / ඨ / ٹھ ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleW
IPA Braille/w/
Russian BrailleВ (v)
Slovak BrailleW
Arabic Brailleو
Persian Brailleو
Irish BrailleW
Thai Brailleว w
Luxembourgish Braillew (minuscule)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Brailleso / そ / ソ
Korean Brailleui / ㅢ
Mainland Chinese Braillewei, -ui
Taiwanese Brailleai / ㄞ
Two-Cell Chinese Braillemi- -á
Nemeth Braille[3] -->
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Brailleـٍ ‎ (tanwīn)
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-2456 are Braille patterns 24567, 24568, and 245678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 24567 dots 24568 dots 245678
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] W (capital)ω (omega)Ω (Omega)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] W (capital)
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Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-3568, Braille pattern dots-13568, Braille pattern dots-34568 and Braille pattern dots-134568.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 3568, 13568, 34568, and 134568 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-2456, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 02456, 24567, and 024567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 3568, 13568, 34568, or 134568

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-2456 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 馬

Compounds of 曹

Compounds of 遂

Compounds of 曾

Compounds of 曽 and 彖

Compounds of 且

Compounds of 丑 and 豕

Compounds of 牛

Compounds of 羊

Compounds of 豚

Compounds of 午

Compounds of 象 and 豸

Compounds of 小

Compounds of 兎

Compounds of 鹿

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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