What ⢸ means
The numbering preserves the original six-dot Braille cell. A Braille cell is a small grid of positions for raised dots, read by touch. In six-dot Braille, the left column is numbered 1, 2, 3 from top to bottom, and the right is 4, 5, 6. Eight-dot Braille adds dot 7 underneath the left column and dot 8 underneath the right.
That makes ⢸ a complete right-hand column in an eight-dot cell. Unicode records which dots are present; a particular Braille code supplies their reading. On an ordinary screen, this character is a visible representation of the dots, not a raised surface you can read by touch.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Worth knowing
- Louis Braille developed his tactile writing system from Charles Barbier’s earlier raised-dot work. Braille’s original cell had six positions; eight-dot cells are a later extension.
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How to type or find ⢸
- Search it as
- Braille dots 4568 · Braille right column · Braille pattern meaning · eight-dot Braille
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⢸CSS
\28B8Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⢸
HTML hex
⢸
CSS content
content: "\28B8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A2%B8
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.