What ⠂ means
The English Braille comma is ⠂, the Braille dot 2 pattern. The Braille b uses dots 1 and 2 together (⠃).
Louis Braille adapted Charles Barbier’s twelve-dot military night-writing system for touch reading in darkness. He encountered it at a Paris institute in 1821, refined it to a six-dot cell readable by one fingertip by 1824, and published a system for words and music in 1829.
Don't confuse it with
3Questions people ask
1Can I translate a lone ⠂?
No. The character records a dot pattern; the Braille code gives it meaning for a language or notation. In English Braille, it marks a comma.
How to type ⠂
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2802, 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-2”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2802, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⠂CSS
\2802Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⠂
HTML hex
⠂
CSS content
content: "\2802";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A0%82
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.