Braille Pattern Dots-145

In English Braille, ⠙ stands for d when letters are written individually. Dots-145 means raised dots in positions 1, 4, and 5.

Braille is writing read by touch. In 1821, Charles Barbier demonstrated sonography, a raised-dot code for sounds, at the Paris School for the Blind. Louis Braille developed a six-dot system from related ideas and published it in 1829, for words, music, and more.

Barbier’s earlier system used twelve-dot cells. Unicode stores the pattern; a Braille code supplies its reading, which can vary by language or purpose.

Why do Braille patterns look different in fonts?

Fonts draw unraised positions differently. Some use circles, tiny dots, or squares; others leave them blank. The display changes, not the encoded pattern.