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braille pattern dots-3578

Braille Pattern Dots-3578

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⣔ is the Braille pattern for dots 3, 5, 7 and 8; alone, it has no universal reading. Its reading depends on code and context: codes differ by language, while music and mathematics have Braille codes. Valentin Haüy’s Paris school made a book with raised letters for blind readers in 1786. Charles Barbier devised military “night writing”; Louis Braille adapted Barbier’s idea into a compact dot system published in 1829.

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What ⣔ means

⣔ is the braille pattern dots-3578. 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, U28D4. In HTML that is ⣔, and in CSS \28D4.

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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 or find ⣔

Search it as
braille pattern dots 3578 · braille dots 3 5 7 8 · unicode braille · U+28D4 · braille pattern dot 3
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 28D4, then AltX 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-3578”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 28d4, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⣔
CSS
\28D4
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⣔
HTML hex
⣔
CSS content
content: "\28D4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A3%94
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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.

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