What ⡆ means
All three dots occupy the left column’s lower positions. Viewed from the reading side, an eight-dot cell has positions 1, 2, 3, 7 down the left and 4, 5, 6, 8 down the right. In ⡆, positions 2, 3 and 7 are filled; the others are empty.
Dot 7 is the extra bottom-left position beneath the traditional six-dot cell. Unicode records this arrangement without assigning it a particular letter or sound. To decode it in a passage, you need that passage’s language and Braille code—the rules assigning meanings to dot patterns.
Braille is writing you can read by touch
Braille uses raised dots so blind readers can read by touch. Louis Braille encountered Charles Barbier’s earlier raised-dot system at school in Paris in 1821 and developed a more compact six-dot system during the 1820s. Braille also supports music and mathematics. Eight-dot Braille extends the cell with two positions at the bottom and is used in computer Braille.
On an ordinary screen, ⡆ is a visual representation of those dots, not a raised surface you can feel.
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How to type or find ⡆
- Search it as
- Braille 237 · Braille dots 237 · dots-237 meaning · eight-dot Braille · three vertical dots · vertical ellipsis · three dot menu · stacked dots
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⡆\2846Why is ⡆ a box on my screen?
fsymbols draws rare signs with its own fonts, so they show here even where your device has none. An app or website without such a font shows an empty box (□) or a question mark instead. Turn our fonts off to see each sign as your device draws it by itself: a box here means a box in your chats and documents too.
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.