Braille pattern dots-34 explained

The Braille pattern dots-34 is a 6-dot braille cell with the top right and bottom left dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top right and lower-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+280c, and in Braille ASCII with the slash: /.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-34 is used to represent a front, open to close diphthong, i.e. /ai/, or otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille(Ì), /, ai
English Braille"st" or / (forward slash)
English Contractionstill
German Brailleäu
Bharati Brailleऐ / ਐ / ઐ / ঐ / ଐ / ఐ / ಐ / ഐ / ஐ / ඓ / ے ‎[2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Braille/ɪ/
Russian Braille-->
Slovak BrailleÍ
Arabic Brailleأ
Persian Braille-->
Irish Braillest
Thai Brailleฉ ch
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Brailleya / や / ヤ
Korean Brailleye / ㅖ
Mainland Chinese Braillezh
Taiwanese Braillewu, -u / ㄨ
Two-Cell Chinese Brailled- -èi
Nemeth Braille/ (forward slash) [3]
Gardner Salinas Brailledenominator sign [4]
Algerian Braille‎-->
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-34 are Braille patterns 347, 348, and 3478, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 347 dots 348 dots 3478
Gardner Salinas Braillestroke / not modifier@/ (forward slash)
Luxembourgish Braille[5] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-57, Braille pattern dots-157, Braille pattern dots-457 and Braille pattern dots-1457.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 57, 157, 457, and 1457 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-34, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 034, 347, and 0347 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 57, 157, 457, or 1457

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-34 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 病 and 疒

Compounds of 艮

Compounds of 乎

Compounds of 豈

Compounds of 山

Compounds of 矢

Compounds of 疾

Compounds of 良

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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