What ⠌ means
Read 3 and 4 as positions, not a number. A standard six-dot braille cell has two columns of three positions. Viewed from the reading side, the left column is numbered 1, 2, 3 from top to bottom, and the right column 4, 5, 6. In ⠌, only positions 3 and 4 are occupied.
Braille is a way of writing languages through raised dots, not a language of its own. Different languages and systems for subjects such as mathematics assign readings to the patterns. Unicode stores the pattern ⠌ itself; to translate it into a letter or sign, you need the braille system used in the surrounding text.
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Worth knowing
- In 1821, Louis Braille encountered a twelve-dot system devised for reading military messages in darkness. He developed a six-dot system and published it in 1829.
- One example of a language-specific reading: Latvian braille uses ⠌ for the letter u.
Questions people ask
1Can you feel this character on a screen?
No. On an ordinary screen, ⠌ is a visible text character, not raised dots. Tactile braille requires embossed material or a braille display, a device with pins that rise to form the dots.
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How to type or find ⠌
- Search it as
- braille dots 34 · braille pattern 34 · braille cell · dots 3 and 4
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⠌\280CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.