Braille Pattern Dots-12347

⡏ is a Braille cell, not a word with a fixed reading. Its value depends on its language's Braille code and sometimes nearby cells. A screen font shows the dots; tactile Braille raises them.

Text symbol

What ⡏ means

No universal letter value belongs to ⡏ alone. Braille meanings depend on the language's code; some readings need neighboring cells.

This Braille pattern has dots 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7. Dots 7 and 8 extend the six-dot cell below its two columns. A screen font draws the pattern; tactile Braille uses raised dots. Chinese Braille, for example, encodes speech sounds, not one Chinese character per cell.

Around 1815, Charles Barbier developed a raised-point writing system. Louis Braille encountered it at his Paris school in 1821 and had developed a six-dot system by 1824.

Outside Braille passages, it reads as technical or decorative.

Don't assign it a letter without its code.

Part of the collection

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Braille Symbols

Questions people ask

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.