What ⡨ means
Dots 4 and 6 are right; dot 7 is bottom-left. An eight-dot Braille cell has two columns of four positions. Read from top to bottom, the left column is numbered 1, 2, 3, 7 and the right column 4, 5, 6, 8. In ⡨, the top-right, third-row right and bottom-left positions are marked; the other five are empty.
Braille is a system for reading and writing through raised dots felt with the fingertips. The familiar six-dot cell has only three rows. Because ⡨ includes dot 7 in a fourth row, it belongs to eight-dot Braille. Unicode records this arrangement without assigning it a particular letter or sound: to decode it as text, you need the Braille code used by the document.
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Worth knowing
- Louis Braille developed his six-dot system in the 1820s, drawing on Charles Barbier’s raised-dot “night writing” for military use. He published his method in 1829; eight-dot Braille is a later extension.
Questions people ask
1Does displaying ⡨ on a screen make it readable by touch?
No. On an ordinary screen it is a visible text character. Tactile Braille needs physical raised dots, such as embossed paper or a refreshable Braille display. Changing the font size does not set tactile cell dimensions.
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How to type or find ⡨
- Search it as
- braille dots 467 · eight-dot braille · braille pattern 467
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⡨\2868Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.