What ⣌ means
It has two bottom dots and two higher dots. An eight-dot cell has two columns of four positions. From top to bottom, the left column is numbered 1, 2, 3, 7; the right is 4, 5, 6, 8. In ⣌, the top-right position, the third position on the left and both bottom positions are filled. The other four positions are empty.
Braille is a system of raised dots read by touch, used by blind and partially sighted people. Its codes represent different languages and kinds of notation. This character records a dot arrangement: it does not, by itself, specify which language or code to read.
Louis Braille developed the six-dot system from Charles Barbier’s raised-dot work and published his system in 1829. Eight-dot Braille extends the cell with a fourth row, allowing more combinations for uses such as computer Braille. On an ordinary screen, ⣌ is a visual representation of those dots, not a raised surface.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsRead it using that passage’s eight-dot Braille code; the pattern alone does not identify a particular letter.
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How to type or find ⣌
- Search it as
- braille dots 3478 · braille cell 3478 · eight-dot braille
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⣌\28CCCodes and encoding1 code points
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