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Braille pattern dots-2356

Braille pattern

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Source updated June 29, 2026
6-dot braille cells
⠀ ⠁⠃⠉⠙⠑⠋⠛⠓⠊⠚ ⠈⠘
⠄ ⠅⠇⠍⠝⠕⠏⠟⠗⠎⠞ ⠌⠜
⠤ ⠥⠧⠭⠽⠵⠯⠿⠷⠮⠾ ⠬⠼
⠠ ⠡⠣⠩⠹⠱⠫⠻⠳⠪⠺ ⠨⠸
shift
down 		⠂⠆⠒⠲⠢⠖⠶⠦⠔⠴ ⠐⠰

The Braille pattern dots-2356 ( ⠶ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with both middle and both bottom dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both upper-middle and both lower-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2836, and in Braille ASCII with the number 7.

Character information
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Unicode name BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2356
Encodingsdecimalhex
Unicode10294U+2836
UTF-8226 160 182E2 A0 B6
Numeric character reference⠶⠶
Braille ASCII5537

01Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-2356 is used for punctuation, or otherwise as needed.

Table of unified braille values

French Braille " (quote mark), math) = (equal sign), -gn-, "été"
English Braille (, ) (parentheses), -gg-
English Contraction were
German Braille eh
Bharati Braille [,

(brackets)

|- |- ! align=left| IPA Braille | square diacritic sign |- ! align=left| Russian Braille | (, ) (parentheses) |- ! align=left| Slovak Braille | " (quote mark) |- ! align=left| Arabic Braille | [, |} (brackets) |- |- |- ! align=left| Thai Braille | ๊ (tone 3) |- |}

02Other braille

Japanese Braille (, ) (parentheses)
Korean Braille -ng / ㅇ
Mainland Chinese Braille wang, -uang
Taiwanese Braille wai, -uai / ㄨㄞ
Two-Cell Chinese Braille pi-
Nemeth Braille 7
Gardner Salinas Braille ? (question mark)

03Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-2356 are Braille patterns 23567, 23568, and 235678, 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-23567 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-23568 BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-235678
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechex
Unicode10358U+287610422U+28B610486U+28F6
UTF-8226 161 182E2 A1 B6226 162 182E2 A2 B6226 163 182E2 A3 B6
Numeric character reference⡶⡶⢶⢶⣶⣶
dots 23567dots 23568dots 235678
Gardner Salinas Braille ~ ≈ (approximately equal) = (equal sign)
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