What ⡩ means
No single letter is guaranteed. A Braille cell is one arrangement of dots used to represent a character. ⡩ marks dots 1, 4, 6, and 7; dot 7 puts it outside the traditional six-dot cell used for literary Braille. In eight-dot computer codes, each code assigns its own value.
Braille grew from an earlier system. In 1808, Barbier presented a 12-dot raised code for military messages in the dark. Louis Braille encountered it in 1821, adapted its tactile idea into a six-dot cell by 1824, and published his code in 1829. Braille's cell logic later served literary writing, music, mathematics, and computer codes.
Use it when the reader knows the relevant Braille code; on its own, it reads as a dot pattern.
Do not present one cell as a complete Braille translation.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsNot a standard cell there: dot 7 falls outside the six-dot system.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Can fonts make ⡩ look different?
Yes. Unicode fonts draw this as a text character rather than embossed dots, and their designs can give its marks different visual weight.
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How to type or find ⡩
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- braille dots 1467 · eight-dot Braille · computer Braille · dot 7 Braille · Braille symbol meaning
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⡩\2869Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.