What ⠆ means
In English Braille punctuation, ⠆ means a semicolon. The Braille semicolon is one reading of the dots 23 pattern; other codes and languages give it different values.
Braille is a tactile writing system read by touch. Books with raised print for blind readers existed at the Paris Institute by 1786. In 1821, Louis Braille encountered a military system called “night writing” and adapted its raised-dot idea into a six-dot code, which he published in 1829.
Can one cell be read by itself?
No; the cell alone does not fix its reading. A single Unicode Braille cell records a raised-dot pattern, not a universal word or punctuation mark. Read it with the surrounding Braille text and its language-specific code.
In Braille, ⠆ is a working cell; outside a known code and context, it has no fixed reading.
Do not translate ⠆ without knowing the Braille code.
What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsDon't confuse it with
4Questions 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.
How to type ⠆
⠆\2806Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.