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Braille pattern dots-12456

Braille pattern

The Braille pattern dots-12456 ( ) is a 6-dot braille cell with both top, both middle, and the bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both top, both upper-middle, and the lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+283b, and in Braille ASCII with a closing bracket: ].

Character information
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Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12456
Encodingsdecimalhex
Unicode10299U+283B
UTF-8226 160 187E2 A0 BB
Numeric character reference⠻⠻
Braille ASCII935D

01Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-12456 is used to represent coronal or dorsal flaps, trills, or approximant consonants such as /r/, /ɹ/, /ɽ/, or /ʀ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.

Table of unified braille values

French Braille Ï, mathematical 7, gr, "grand"
English Braille er
German Braille er
Bharati Braille ड़ / ੜ / ড় / ଡ଼ / ఱ / ಱ / റ / ற / ඈ / ڑ
Icelandic Braille Ú
IPA Braille /ð/
Slovak Braille / (slash)
Thai Braille ng
Luxembourgish Braille 7 (seven)
Spanish Braille ñ

02Other braille

Japanese Braille se / せ / セ
Korean Braille yeong / 영
Mainland Chinese Braille wan, -uan
Taiwanese Braille wan, -uan / ㄨㄢ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille -ái, 还 hái
Nemeth Braille cancel (close), termination indicator
Gardner Salinas Braille 7
Algerian Braille ـْ (sukūn)

03Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-12456 are Braille patterns 124567, 124568, and 1245678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character information
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Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-124567 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-124568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1245678
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechex
Unicode10363U+287B10427U+28BB10491U+28FB
UTF-8226 161 187E2 A1 BB226 162 187E2 A2 BB226 163 187E2 A3 BB
Numeric character reference⡻⡻⢻⢻⣻⣻
dots 124567dots 124568dots 1245678
Gardner Salinas Braille
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