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braille pattern dots-25

Braille Cell with Dots 2 and 5

By itself, ⠒ has no single reading across all Braille codes; it is a six-dot cell with dots 2 and 5 raised, one middle dot in each column. In English Braille, it marks a colon, while another code may use the same pattern differently. Louis Braille’s six-dot system drew on Charles Barbier’s earlier twelve-dot night-writing, a raised-dot military code introduced at the Paris school in 1821.

Text symbol
Search it as
Braille dots 25 · Braille colon · dots 2 and 5
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ⠒ means

⠒ is the braille pattern dots-25. Unicode classifies it as an “other symbol” — Unicode's shelf for signs that are neither maths, money nor punctuation and files it in the Braille Patterns block; this site shelves it under Lines & boxes.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

⠒ is a single code point, U+2812. In HTML that is ⠒, and in CSS \2812.

Don't confuse it with

4
⠁
Braille Pattern Dots-1
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”
⠂
Braille Pattern Dots-2
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”
⠃
Braille Pattern Dots-12
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”
⠄
Braille Pattern Dots-3
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”

Questions people ask

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Why 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.

How to type ⠒

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2812, then Alt+X to get ⠒.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “braille pattern dots-25”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2812, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⠒
CSS
\2812
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⠒
HTML hex
⠒
CSS content
content: "\2812";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A0%92
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Braille256 symbols

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