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⢶

braille pattern dots-23568

Braille pattern dots 23568

⢶ is a Braille dot pattern, not a fixed letter or word; a Braille code supplies its reading. The Braille system grew from Charles Barbier's night writing into Louis Braille's tactile writing system.

Text symbol

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Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ⢶ means

⢶ marks raised-dot positions 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8. A language or technical Braille code decides whether the pattern stands for a letter, punctuation, an abbreviation, or another sign; Unicode preserves the dot layout, not a universal reading.

Charles Barbier devised 12-dot night writing so soldiers could read messages silently in the dark; he demonstrated it at a Paris school for blind students in 1821. Louis Braille reshaped it into six-dot cells, readable under one fingertip, and extended the system to spelling, punctuation, music, and mathematics.

Don't confuse it with

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Braille Pattern Dots-1

shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”

Braille Pattern Dots-2

shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”

Braille Pattern Dots-12

shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”

Braille Pattern Dots-3

shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”

Questions people ask

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Why can ⢶ look too high next to text?

The font may align Braille cells to an eight-dot grid, which can make some patterns sit high next to text; this rendering issue was noted in 2025.

How to type ⢶

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 28B6, 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-23568”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 28b6, then Enter or Space.

HTML

⢶

CSS

\28B6

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

⢶

HTML hex

⢶

CSS content

content: "\28B6";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%E2%A2%B6

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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.

Families this belongs to

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Braille256 symbols

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