Braille pattern dots-246 explained

The Braille pattern dots-246 is a 6-dot braille cell with the middle left, and top and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the upper-middle left, and top and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+282a, and in Braille ASCII with an open bracket: .

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-246 is used to represent close-mid to open-mid back rounded vowels, such as /o/, /o̞/, or /ɔ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleŒ, mathematical 9, im-, -ition, "son"
English BrailleOw
English Contraction-->
German BrailleÖ
Bharati Brailleऔ / ਔ / ઔ / ঔ / ଔ / ఔ / ಔ / ഔ / ஔ / ඖ / و ‎[2]
Icelandic BrailleÖ
IPA Braille/œ/
Russian BrailleЭ
Slovak BrailleÓ
Arabic Brailleأو
Persian Braille-->
Irish Braille-->
Thai Brailleึ eu
Luxembourgish Braille9 (nine)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Brailleko / こ / コ
Korean Brailleeu / ㅡ
Mainland Chinese Brailleai
Taiwanese Brailleyao, -iao / ㄧㄠ,) (end parenthesis)
Two-Cell Chinese Braillem- -é/-ó, 没 méi
Nemeth Braillecancel (open) [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille9 [4]
Algerian Brailleـً (tanwīn) ‎
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-246 are Braille patterns 2467, 2468, and 24678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 2467 dots 2468 dots 24678
Gardner Salinas Braille√ (radical)〈 (open angle bracket)
Luxembourgish Braille[5] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-358, Braille pattern dots-1358, Braille pattern dots-3458 and Braille pattern dots-13458.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 358, 1358, 3458, and 13458 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-246, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0246, 2467, and 02467 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 358, 1358, 3458, or 13458

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-246 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 子

Compounds of 孑

Compounds of 巽

Compounds of 共

Compounds of 呉

Compounds of 公

Compounds of 工

Compounds of 耒

Compounds of 甲

Compounds of 黄

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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