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braille pattern dots-12346

Braille Cell, Dots 1-2-3-4-6

⠯ can stand for “and” in English Braille, but readings vary by code. Unified English Braille writes ampersand (&) as ⠈⠯; French Braille uses the same cell for ç.

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braille dots 12346 · braille and sign · braille ampersand · UEB · French Braille ç
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ⠯ means

It depends on the code. English Braille uses ⠯ alone for “and.” Unified English Braille (UEB) writes ampersand (&) as ⠈⠯, with the dot-4 sign ⠈ first.

Charles Barbier showed a twelve-dot system for reading and writing by touch at a Paris school for blind students in 1821. Louis Braille drew on those ideas to develop a six-dot cell readable under one fingertip; he was developing it in 1824. This screen glyph depicts the cell; raised paper dots or a refreshable display make Braille tactile.

Code-dependent Braille notation.

Outside English Braille, do not assume ⠯ means “and.”

What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings
Alone in English Braille
It can be the English word sign “and.”
In a French Braille text
A 2013 guide lists ⠯ for ç, the letter c with a cedilla.

Don't confuse it with

4
⠁
Braille Pattern Dots-1
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”
⠂
Braille Pattern Dots-2
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”
⠃
Braille Pattern Dots-12
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”
⠄
Braille Pattern Dots-3
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”

Questions people ask

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Why does ⠯ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type ⠯

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 282F, then Alt+X to get ⠯.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “braille pattern dots-12346”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 282f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⠯
CSS
\282F
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⠯
HTML hex
⠯
CSS content
content: "\282F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A0%AF
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Braille256 symbols

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