Braille pattern dots-1248

Braille is a system of raised dots that people read by touch. Each small group of dots is called a cell. In an eight-dot cell, the left column is numbered 1, 2, 3, 7 from top to bottom; the right column is 4, 5, 6, 8. So ⢋ has dots at the top left, second position on the left, top right and bottom right.

Traditional six-dot Braille has two columns of three positions. Eight-dot Braille adds a fourth row and is used, among other things, for computer text. This character belongs to that eight-dot arrangement: its bottom-right dot is part of the cell, not punctuation.

Unicode records the arrangement, while the Braille code being used assigns its reading. To decode ⢋ in a passage, you need to know that code; the dot numbers alone do not identify a letter. On an ordinary screen, the character is a visual representation of tactile dots.