What ⢈ means
The Braille code assigns a sign to this pattern. ⢈ has raised dots 4 and 8 in an eight-dot cell.
Charles Barbier’s raised-dot system, known as “night writing,” preceded Louis Braille’s compact tactile reading and writing system for blind readers, which adapted Barbier’s approach. Later eight-dot extensions broadened Braille for music, mathematics and computer text.
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why 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.
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How to type or find ⢈
- Search it as
- Braille 8-dot · Braille dots 4 and 8 · Braille cell 48
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⢈CSS
\2888Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⢈
HTML hex
⢈
CSS content
content: "\2888";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A2%88
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On screen
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Code points
1
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.