What ⡑ means
No; it marks a dot pattern, not one fixed letter.
In an eight-dot cell, dots 1–3 run down the left column, 4–6 down the right, and 7–8 sit below.
Braille developed for fingertip reading
Charles Barbier published a raised-dot method for blind readers in 1815. In 1829, Louis Braille published a compact six-dot system whose cells let one fingertip feel every dot at once.
A screen glyph is not tactile output
⡑ is text drawn by a font. Touch reading needs dots physically raised on a page or device.
Part of the collection
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
- braille pattern meaning · braille dot pattern · braille dots 1 5 7 · eight-dot braille
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⡑CSS
\2851Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⡑
HTML hex
⡑
CSS content
content: "\2851";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A1%91
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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.