What ⢊ means
Identify the dot positions, then the Braille code. 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 ⢊, only positions 2, 4 and 8 are filled.
Braille is writing read by touch through raised dots. Its codes represent language, music, mathematics and computing. Unicode records this cell's dot arrangement, without assigning it one letter or meaning across all codes. If someone sends it alone, ask which code they are using; dot 8 is not a universal instruction or letter marker.
Charles Barbier described raised-point writing for blind readers in 1815. Louis Braille developed a six-dot system from that work and published it in 1829. Eight-dot Braille extends the cell with two lower positions; ⢊ uses the lower-right one.
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Questions people ask
1Does ⢊ mean anything inside a text picture?
It can simply supply dots for the picture. Braille characters can form text art, where their arrangement makes an image rather than a passage to read in Braille.
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How to type or find ⢊
- Search it as
- braille dots 248 · braille cell 248 · eight-dot braille
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⢊\288ACodes and encoding1 code points
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