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braille pattern dots-5

Braille dot-5 cell

⠐ is a Braille cell with dot 5 raised, not a universal letter or word. Reading it needs the Braille code and usually the neighboring cells.

Text symbol
Search it as
dot 5 in braille · braille dot 5 meaning · braille ascii quote
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ⠐ means

⠐ marks dot 5, not one fixed letter or word. In six-dot Braille, dot 5 sits midway down the right column. Unicode records the shape; a code assigns its reading.

Charles Barbier proposed raised-dot writing for blind or partially sighted people in 1815. His twelve-dot system was tried in 1821 at the Paris school where Louis Braille studied. Braille published his six-dot system in 1829; ⠐ is one pattern in it.

Does ⠐ mean a quotation mark?

Only in Braille ASCII. There, this cell maps to a printed double quotation mark; that computer-text convention is not a universal Braille reading.

Don't confuse it with

4
⠁
Braille Pattern Dots-1
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”
⠂
Braille Pattern Dots-2
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”
⠃
Braille Pattern Dots-12
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”
⠄
Braille Pattern Dots-3
shares “braille”, “dots”, “pattern”

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 ⠐

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2810, then Alt+X 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-5”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2810, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⠐
CSS
\2810
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⠐
HTML hex
⠐
CSS content
content: "\2810";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A0%90
1
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.

Families this belongs to

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Braille256 symbols

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