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⢃

braille pattern dots-128

Braille Pattern Dots-128

⢃ marks braille dots 1, 2, and 8 in one eight-dot cell, but it has no universal reading: the code and neighboring cells determine what it stands for. Braille grew from earlier raised-letter methods; Charles Barbier presented a system for writing by touch in 1821, and Louis Braille published his six-dot method in 1829.

Text symbol

What ⢃ means

No; its reading depends on the braille code. A 2013 report on braille systems recorded no international standard for eight-dot braille. Codes vary by language and purpose, so identifying this cell requires the code and neighboring cells.

Part of the collection

⠃

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.

How to type or find ⢃

Search it as: braille dots 1 2 8 · eight-dot braille · meaning of ⢃
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 2883, then AltX 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-128”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 2883, then Enter or Space.

HTML

⢃

CSS

\2883

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

⢃

HTML hex

⢃

CSS content

content: "\2883";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%E2%A2%83

On screen

Code points

JS .length

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

Braille256 symbols

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