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⢢

braille pattern dots-268

Braille cell with dots 2, 6, and 8

⢢ is a Braille cell with dots 2, 6, and 8; its meaning depends on the code, not the cell alone. In 1821, Charles Barbier presented “sonography,” a raised-dot code for silent communication, at a Paris school for blind students; Louis Braille reshaped it into a compact system for spelling and literacy. Braille serves languages, music, mathematics and digital text; Moon type is a related tactile system of raised lines.

Text symbol
Search it as
braille pattern dots-268 · braille pattern dots-268 symbol · braille pattern dots-268 copy paste
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ⢢ means

⢢ is the braille pattern dots-268. 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+28A2. In HTML that is ⢢, and in CSS \28A2.

Don't confuse it with

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⠁
Braille Pattern Dots-1
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”
⠂
Braille Pattern Dots-2
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”
⠃
Braille Pattern Dots-12
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”
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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 28A2, 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-268”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 28a2, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⢢
CSS
\28A2
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⢢
HTML hex
⢢
CSS content
content: "\28A2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A2%A2
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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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