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braille pattern dots-1568

Braille Pattern Dots-1568

⢱ is a Unicode pattern in the eight-dot Braille grid, not a universal letter. A Braille code gives it a value; online, it can be a block in Braille art. A Braille-shaped pattern is not automatically accessible text.

Text symbol
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braille · braille art · unicode braille · braille dots 1568
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ⢱ means

Dots 1, 5, 6 and 8 are raised; no universal letter value. Its reading depends on the Braille code; many six-dot systems do not use dot 8. Alone in a message, its intended letter is unclear.

Braille art can use patterns like this as visual blocks, but a row of cells is not automatically translated for a reader's language and Braille device. Charles Barbier presented raised-point writing in Paris in 1821. Louis Braille adapted Barbier's twelve-dot system into six-dot Braille by 1824 and published it in 1829; Unicode's eight-dot patterns also serve computing.

Technical and niche; alone, it can look decorative.

Braille-shaped text is not automatically accessible Braille.

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings
Alone in a message
Its intended letter is unclear.
Inside a Braille sequence
One cell; read it using that language's Braille code.
Repeated in aligned rows
Likely a visual pattern, not prose.

Don't confuse it with

2
⢰
Braille Pattern Dots-568
Has dots 5, 6 and 8; this pattern adds dot 1.
⢲
Braille Pattern Dots-2568
Uses dot 2 in place of dot 1.

Questions people ask

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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.

How to type ⢱

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 28B1, then Alt+X to get ⢱.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “braille pattern dots-1568”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 28b1, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⢱
CSS
\28B1
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⢱
HTML hex
⢱
CSS content
content: "\28B1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A2%B1
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

1

Braille256 symbols

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