Braille pattern dots-456 explained

The Braille pattern dots-456 is a 6-dot braille cell with all three right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top, upper-middle, and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2838, and in Braille ASCII with the underscore: _.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-456 is used to represent lateral approximant, such as /l/, /ʟ/, or /ʎ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Brailleemphasis mark, ll, -elle
English Brailleinitial letter abbreviation mark
English Contraction-->
German Braille-lich
Bharati Brailleळ / ਲ਼ / ળ / ଲ / ళ / ಳ / ള / ள / ළ [2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Brailletone letter mark
Russian Brailleitalic mark
Slovak BrailleĽ
Arabic Braille-->
Persian Braille-->
Irish Braille-->
Thai Braille-->
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Brailleyōon + dakuten + handakuten
Korean Braille/ -->
Mainland Chinese Braille, - -->
Taiwanese Braillewang, -uang / ㄨㄤ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille-->
Nemeth Braillepunctuation sign [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Braille‎-->
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-456 are Braille patterns 4567, 4568, and 45678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 4567 dots 4568 dots 45678
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] underline indicatorunderline indicator
Luxembourgish Braille[6] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-568, Braille pattern dots-1568 and Braille pattern dots-14568.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 568, 1568, 4568, and 14568 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-456, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0456, 4567, and 04567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 568, 1568, 4568, or 14568

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-456 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 氷 and 氵

Compounds of 改 and 攵

Compounds of 曷

Compounds of 冫

Compounds of 永

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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