What ⣙ means
It marks raised dots 1, 4, 5, 7, and 8. A six-dot Braille cell places dots 1–3 down the left and 4–6 down the right; an eight-dot cell adds positions 7 and 8. Is ⣙ a Braille letter? Only a specified code assigns it a reading.
Braille grew from Charles Barbier's raised-dot system; Louis Braille refined it into a compact six-dot tactile system in the 1820s. That layout became the basis for later Braille codes for language, music, mathematics, and computers. Eight-dot computer Braille adds two positions, and different codes assign those patterns differently.
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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
- ⣙ Braille · Braille cell · 8-dot Braille · computer Braille · Braille dots 14578
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⣙\28D9Codes and encoding1 code points
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