What ⠦ means
⠦ uses dots 2, 3 and 6. Under UEB’s 2024 rules, it means a question mark, an opening double quote at a word’s start, or standalone “his.” In contracted Braille, one cell can stand for a whole word.
Braille’s six-dot cell shrank a predecessor
Haüy’s raised letters let blind pupils read, but not write, by 1784. Barbier published raised-dot writing in 1815; he showed his 12-dot cell at a Paris school in 1821. Louis Braille, a pupil there, reduced it to six dots, readable in one touch; he published it in 1829 and revised it in 1837.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsQuestion mark.
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 ⠦
- Also called
- lower h
- Search it as
- Braille dots 236 · Braille question mark · UEB 236
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⠦\2826Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.