What ⢩ means
The code decides what it means. The pattern of raised dots 1, 4, 6 and 8 may stand for a letter, punctuation mark or control.
Charles Barbier devised “night writing,” raised dots French soldiers could read without light. Louis Braille adapted it into a six-dot system after meeting Barbier in 1821. Eight-dot systems later served music, shorthand and Japanese kanji (characters). Spain recognized Gabriel Abreu's eight-dot music method in 1855. Braille embossers—printers that press raised dots—helped computer Braille expand in the 1970s.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsA pattern without a code-specific reading.
Related characters
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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
- eight-dot Braille · computer Braille · Braille cell
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⢩\28A9Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.