Braille pattern, dots 1–7

It marks dots 1–7; it has no fixed letter or word meaning.

Braille is writing read by touch. Dots 1–6 form the six-dot core; dots 7–8 extend it. Unicode stores ⡿’s dot pattern, while each Braille code supplies a reading.

Charles Barbier devised “night writing,” a raised-dot code for soldiers in darkness. He demonstrated it at a Paris school for blind students in 1821. Louis Braille made it a six-dot cell by 1824 and published his system in 1829. ⡿ is not a Barbier-era letter.