What ⢖ means
Two dots are on the left and two on the right.
An eight-dot cell has two columns of four positions. From top to bottom, the left column is numbered 1, 2, 3, 7; the right is 4, 5, 6, 8. In ⢖, the second and third positions on the left and the second and bottom positions on the right are marked.
Braille is a system of raised dots read by touch. The familiar six-dot cell has three rows; eight-dot Braille adds a bottom row. The 8 in this character's name identifies the bottom-right position, not a total of eight raised dots.
Unicode preserves the dot pattern without assigning it one reading. Braille codes supply the meanings of patterns and their combinations, including for text, music, mathematics and computing. A picture of the dots on an ordinary screen is their visual representation, not a raised surface.
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Worth knowing
- Charles Barbier demonstrated raised-dot writing in Paris in 1821. Louis Braille developed a more compact six-dot system and published his method in 1829.
Questions people ask
1Can ⢖ be part of a picture rather than text?
Yes. Unicode Braille patterns are also used to build pictures out of dots. In such an arrangement, ⢖ supplies four dots to the image; the result is not necessarily readable Braille.
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How to type or find ⢖
- Search it as
- Braille · dots 2358 · eight-dot Braille · Unicode Braille · Braille character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⢖\2896Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.