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braille pattern dots-1234678

Braille Pattern Dots 1234678

⣯ is a Braille cell, not a fixed letter or word: its reading depends on language and code. Without context, treat it as a pattern. Braille drew on earlier raised-dot writing and Charles Barbier's military code; Louis Braille refined it in 1821, published his first alphabet in 1829, and the Paris institute adopted it in 1854. Braille cells serve music, math, and computing codes.

Text symbol
Search it as
braille cell · braille code · computer braille · braille music notation
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ⣯ means

⣯ is the braille pattern dots-1234678. Unicode classifies it as an “other symbol” — Unicode's shelf for signs that are neither maths, money nor punctuation and files it in the Braille Patterns block; this site shelves it under Lines & boxes.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

⣯ is a single code point, U+28EF. In HTML that is ⣯, and in CSS \28EF.

Don't confuse it with

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⠧
Braille Pattern Dots-1236
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”
⠨
Braille Pattern Dots-46
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”
⠩
Braille Pattern Dots-146
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”
⠪
Braille Pattern Dots-246
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 28EF, 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-1234678”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 28ef, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⣯
CSS
\28EF
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⣯
HTML hex
⣯
CSS content
content: "\28EF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A3%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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