What ⠹ means
In contracted English Braille, read it as “th” or “this”. A contraction saves space by representing several letters with fewer cells. The letters “th” form part of a word; standing alone under the contraction rules, ⠹ represents the whole word “this”. These are English readings, not a translation that applies to every language.
Braille is a system of raised dots read by touch. A traditional cell has six positions in two columns: 1, 2, 3 down the left and 4, 5, 6 down the right, viewed from the reading side. In ⠹, positions 1, 4, 5 and 6 are filled; positions 2 and 3 are empty. The name describes those positions, not a four-digit number.
The same arrangement can carry another language’s letters: German Braille reads ⠹ as “ch”. Unicode preserves the dot arrangement; it does not assign the cell one universal word or pronunciation.
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Worth knowing
- Louis Braille developed his six-dot system from Charles Barbier’s twelve-dot method. He presented it in 1824 and published it in 1829.
Questions people ask
1Can someone read this character by touch on a screen?
Not on an ordinary flat screen. The visible dots are a picture of the pattern. Embossed paper or a refreshable Braille display, which raises physical pins, makes Braille tactile.
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Collections with ⠹
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How to type or find ⠹
- Search it as
- braille dots 1456 · th in braille · this in braille · German braille ch
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⠹\2839Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.