Braille dots 123567

⡷ is an eight-dot Braille pattern with six occupied positions: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7. It represents a precise arrangement of dots, not one universal letter or word. To read it as text, you need the Braille code used by the writer.

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What ⡷ means

All four left positions and two right positions are occupied.

An eight-dot Braille cell has two columns of four positions. Read from top to bottom, the left column is numbered 1, 2, 3, 7 and the right 4, 5, 6, 8. In ⡷, positions 4 and 8 are empty. “Eight-dot” describes the available positions, not the number filled.

Braille is writing read by touch through raised dots. Different Braille codes assign patterns to letters, sounds, words or signs. Unicode preserves this pattern’s dot arrangement; it does not assign it a universal translation.

How did raised-dot writing begin?

Louis Braille developed a compact system for reading by touch.

In the early 19th century, Charles Barbier devised 12-dot “night writing” for soldiers. It was tried at a Paris school for blind students in 1821. Louis Braille developed a six-dot cell small enough to fit under a fingertip and published his system in 1829. Eight-dot Braille extends that cell with two bottom positions.

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Braille Symbols

Questions people ask

Can I feel this character on a screen?

No. On an ordinary screen it is a flat image of dots. Tactile Braille requires raised dots, such as embossed paper or a Braille display with movable pins.