What ⢚ means
One is on the left; three are on the right.
An eight-dot cell has two columns of four positions. Viewed from the reading side, the left column is numbered 1, 2, 3, 7 from top to bottom; the right is 4, 5, 6, 8. In ⢚, the second position on the left and the first, second and bottom positions on the right are raised. “Eight-dot” describes the available positions, not how many dots this character raises.
Can you translate ⢚ into a letter?
Only if you know which Braille code is being used.
Braille is not a separate language: it represents languages through arrangements of raised dots, with codes for music and technical notation too. Unicode stores this arrangement without assigning it a universal reading. A code can give it a specific value, so the surrounding text and the document’s Braille system matter.
On an ordinary screen, ⢚ is a visible font character, not a raised surface. Reading it by touch requires Braille hardware and software that handles the text appropriately.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Worth knowing
- Louis Braille encountered Charles Barbier’s twelve-dot night-writing system in 1821. He developed a six-dot system readable with a fingertip and published it in 1829; eight-dot Braille is a later extension.
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How to type or find ⢚
- Search it as
- braille · dots-2458 · braille cell · 8-dot braille · unicode braille
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⢚\289ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.