What ⠽ means
In English Braille, it stands for the letter y.
Braille dots 13456 name five raised positions in a six-position cell, arranged in two columns of three. Unicode records that pattern; the language-specific Braille code supplies its reading.
The tactile system behind this cell has earlier roots: Charles Barbier described tactile writing for blind readers in 1815 and demonstrated a raised-dot system at the Paris institute in 1821. Louis Braille adapted that approach into a more compact alphabet for spelling and punctuation.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsThe letter y.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why 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.
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How to type or find ⠽
- Search it as
- six-dot Braille · raised-dot pattern · Braille cell
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⠽\283DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.