What ⡮ means
No single letter is built into the cell. Unicode 17.0 records its dot shape; a braille code assigns the reading.
How did braille gain more dots?
Braille began with six dots; later codes extended the cell.
Charles Barbier’s military “night writing” used 12 raised dots and reached a Paris school for blind students in 1821. Louis Braille began adapting it into six-dot cells in 1824 and published his system in 1829. Later eight-dot systems added positions 7 and 8 for more patterns.
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 dots 23467 · Unicode braille input · braille dot numbers · eight-dot braille
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⡮CSS
\286EDot-number input
In a braille converter with numeric dot input, enter 23467 as one cell and choose Unicode braille output.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⡮
HTML hex
⡮
CSS content
content: "\286E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A1%AE
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.