Braille pattern dots 1-2-3-4-5-7

Each Braille character works as a tiny 2×4 pixel grid. Unicode includes all 256 ways to raise eight dots, so lining them up draws pictures, logos and graphs in plain text with finer detail than ordinary letters allow. In ⡟ the lit pixels are the whole left column and the top two of the right column. You'll meet this Braille art in chat messages, comments, social media posts and graphs drawn in command-line programs.

Fonts decide how it looks. Some draw unraised dots as faint empty circles, some leave them blank, and some make the characters wider than spaces, so a picture that looked crisp for the sender can arrive skewed or speckled.

What does ⡟ mean to someone who reads Braille?

Q in most Latin-script Braille, with dot 7 added. A classic Braille cell has six dots: 1–3 down the left column, 4–6 down the right. Dots 1-2-3-4-5 are q in Louis Braille's alphabet, shared by most languages written in Latin letters. Eight-dot Braille, used mainly on computers and refreshable Braille displays, adds dot 7 under the left column and dot 8 under the right. Many computer Braille tables use dot 7 to mark a capital, which would make ⡟ a capital Q, but tables differ by country and device, so the exact reading depends on the code in use.