Braille pattern dots-45 explained

The Braille pattern dots-45 is a 6-dot braille cell with the top and middle right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top and upper middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2818, and in Braille ASCII with a caret: ^.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-45 is used as a format or abbreviation sign, or as otherwise needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braillecurrency sign, bl, -able
English Brailleabbreviation sign
English Contraction-->
German Braille-ig
Bharati Brailleभ / ਭ / ભ / ভ / ଭ / భ / ಭ / ഭ / භ / بھ ‎[2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Braille-->
Russian Braille-->
Slovak BrailleGreek sign
Arabic Braille-->
Persian Braille-->
Irish Braille-->
Thai Braille-->
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Brailleyōon + dakuten
Korean Brailleb- / ㅂ
Mainland Chinese Braille-->
Taiwanese Brailleyuan, -üan / ㄩㄢ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille-->
Nemeth Braillesuperscript mark [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Braille‎-->
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-45 are Braille patterns 457, 458, and 4578, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 457 dots 458 dots 4578
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] ) (close parenthesis)bold indicatorfractur indicator
Luxembourgish Braille[6] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-56, Braille pattern dots-156, Braille pattern dots-456 and Braille pattern dots-1456.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 56, 156, 456, and 1456 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-45, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 045, 457, and 0457 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 56, 156, 456, or 1456

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-45 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Variants
Directional thematic compounds
Other thematic compounds

Compounds of 比

Compounds of 此

Compounds of 上, 下, and 中

Compounds of 右, 左, 北, 南, 東, and 西

Compounds of 母 and 毋

Compounds of 入 and 出

Compounds of 互, 亙, 凸, 凹, 良, 貫, 可, 大, 小, 尺, 屯, 斗, 斤, 升, 丈, 勺, and 匁

Compounds of 里, 高, 可, and 亀

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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