Braille Pattern Dots-346

Its reading depends on the Braille code and surrounding text. ⠬ is the Braille dots-346 cell: positions 3, 4, and 6 are raised in the six-position cell. Depending on the language or specialist code, cells can stand for letters, punctuation, contractions, or technical signs.

Braille grew from early-19th-century raised-dot work associated with Charles Barbier. In the 1820s, Louis Braille reshaped that approach into a more compact six-dot system for tactile reading and writing by blind people. It was later adapted for different languages and specialist fields, including mathematics, music, and computing.

The 2014 English-language technical Braille guidelines use dots 346 for a “visible space”: a gap in print that needs its own sign in the Braille transcription. That convention applies to this technical use; it is not a general reading of ⠬.