Braille pattern dots-36 explained

The Braille pattern dots-36 is a 6-dot braille cell with both bottom dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both lower-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2824, and in Braille ASCII with the hyphen: -.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-36 is used to represent hyphens and dashes, and otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braille- (hyphen), (math) − (minus), com-, "celui"
English Braille- (hyphen)
English Contractioncom-†
German Braille- (hyphen)
Bharati Braille- (hyphen) [2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Braille- (hyphen - morpheme break)
Russian Braille- (hyphen)
Slovak Braille- (hyphen), – (en dash)
Arabic Braille- (hyphen)
Persian Braille-->
Irish Braillecom
Thai Brailleconsonant modifier
Braille-->
† Abolished in Unified English Braille

Other braille

Japanese Braille「 and 」
Korean Braille/ -->
Mainland Chinese Braille, - -->
Taiwanese Braille。 (period), ・ (interpunct)
Two-Cell Chinese Braille〜 (hyphen)
Nemeth Braille- (minus sign) [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Braille‎-->
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-36 are Braille patterns 367, 368, and 3678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 367 dots 368 dots 3678
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] markup indicator… (ellipses)∝ (proportionality)
Luxembourgish Braille[6] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-78, Braille pattern dots-178, Braille pattern dots-478 and Braille pattern dots-1478.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 78, 178, 478, and 1478 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-36, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 036, 367, and 0367 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 78, 178, 478, or 1478

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-36 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 学 and 龸

Compounds of 亠

Compounds of 凡

Compounds of 舜

Compounds of 几

Compounds of 愛

Compounds of 光

Compounds of 文

Compounds of 下 and 卞

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: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.
  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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