Braille pattern dots-56 explained

The Braille pattern dots-56 is a 6-dot braille cell with the middle and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the upper-middle and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2830, and in Braille ASCII with a semicolon: ;.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-56 is used as a punctuation or formatting sign, or otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Brailleuncontracted value sign, or
English Braillefinal letter abbreviation
English Contraction-->
German Braille-ach
Bharati Braille / ன [2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Braillenational orthography (non-IPA) format sign
Russian Braille-->
Slovak Braillelower case mark
Arabic Braille
(semicolon)
Persian Braillemathematical symbol sign
Irish Braille-->
Thai Braillenot an independent sign
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Braille、 (comma)
Korean Braillech- / ㅊ
Mainland Chinese Braille
(semicolon)
Taiwanese Braille
(semicolon)
Two-Cell Chinese Brailleforeign script mark
Nemeth Braillesubscript, letter mark [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille[4] -->
Algerian Braille‎-->
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-56 are Braille patterns 567, 568, and 5678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 567 dots 568 dots 5678
Gardner Salinas Braille[5] close complex radicand
Luxembourgish Braille[6] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-68, Braille pattern dots-168, Braille pattern dots-468 and Braille pattern dots-1468.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 68, 168, 468, and 1468 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-56, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 056, 567, and 0567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 68, 168, 468, or 1468

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-56 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

The kantenji is used in indicating most of the common (non-banking) number kanji, as well as the classical heavenly stem ordinals.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 勿

Compounds of 右

Compounds of numbers

Compounds of heavenly stems

Other compounds

[7] [8] [9] [10]

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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