Braille Pattern Dots-1567

⡱ is an eight-dot braille cell with dots 1, 5, 6 and 7; it has no universal letter value. Its code determines the reading, so alone it signals a braille pattern, not a complete message.

Text symbol

What ⡱ means

No fixed letter belongs to this pattern. Codes assign patterns by language and context.

Braille is raised-dot writing read by touch. Charles Barbier published a twelve-dot method in 1815 and promoted it at a Paris school for blind students in 1821. Louis Braille reshaped it as a six-dot cell, small enough for one fingertip to read at once, and published his system in 1829.

⡱ has dots 1, 5, 6 and 7; has its six-dot core without dot 7. A font draws the text glyph; it does not make tactile bumps or set their dimensions.

Technical in a code, opaque alone.

One cell alone does not identify a letter.

Part of the collection

⠃

Braille Symbols

Questions people ask

Why 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.