Braille pattern dots-12568

Two dots sit on the left, three on the right. A Braille cell is one unit of raised dots in a writing system read by touch. In the eight-dot layout, each cell has two columns and four rows. From top to bottom, the left positions are numbered 1, 2, 3, 7; the right positions are 4, 5, 6, 8.

For ⢳, positions 1 and 2 are filled on the left, and 5, 6 and 8 on the right. Positions 3, 4 and 7 are empty. The name 12568 lists the filled positions; it is not a number the character spells out.

Can you translate ⢳ into a letter?

There is no single translation shared by all Braille codes. Unicode records this dot pattern without assigning it a letter or word. To read it as text, you need the Braille code used by the writer—the rules that give dot patterns their meanings—and the surrounding text.

Traditional six-dot Braille has two columns of three dots. Eight-dot Braille adds a bottom row and is used, among other things, for computer text on refreshable Braille displays: devices whose pins rise and fall to form tactile characters. A dot shown on an ordinary screen is only a visual representation of a raised dot.