What ⠲ means
It marks a period in English Braille. The same cell can carry another value in a different language or computer table; Unicode records the raised dots, not the reading.
Louis Braille began developing raised-dot writing for blind readers in 1821, after encountering night writing, a military code of raised dots for use after dark; he published his six-dot system in 1829. Later, eight-dot Braille added two positions for computer text; ISO, the international standards body, standardized a Latin-based eight-dot code in 2001.
Use ⠲ as a Braille cell only when its table or reading context is clear.
Don't assume it means a period in every Braille code.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA period or full stop.
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 ⠲
- Search it as
- braille period · braille full stop · braille dots 256 · computer braille code 4 · eight-dot braille
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⠲\2832Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.