What ⢕ means
Two dots are on the left and two on the right. An eight-dot Braille cell has two columns of four positions. Read from top to bottom, the left positions are numbered 1, 2, 3, 7; the right positions are 4, 5, 6, 8.
In ⢕, the top and third positions on the left are filled, along with the second and bottom positions on the right. The other positions are empty. “1358” lists those positions; it is not a number written in Braille. Dot 8 places this pattern outside the traditional six-dot cell.
Can you read it as a letter?
Only a particular Braille code can give it a reading. Braille is a system of raised dots that people read by touch. Different languages and uses have different rules for assigning letters, numbers and other meanings to the patterns. Unicode records this pattern without assigning it a universal meaning. To interpret it in text, identify the code and read the surrounding cells.
In a picture made from text characters, ⢕ can instead supply four dots in the drawing. Such an arrangement is not automatically readable Braille. The font and line spacing can affect how the picture fits together.
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Worth knowing
- In 1821, Charles Barbier introduced an earlier raised-dot method at a Paris school for blind pupils. Louis Braille developed a six-dot system and published it in 1829.
Questions people ask
1Can you feel this character on a screen?
No. An ordinary screen shows a flat image of the dots. Tactile Braille needs raised dots, produced on paper or by a Braille display with moving pins.
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How to type or find ⢕
- Search it as
- braille dots 1358 · 8 dot braille · Unicode braille · braille dot art
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⢕\2895Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.