What ⢠ means
Only within a specific Braille code.
Unicode stores the raised-dot shape; the code and context set the reading.
How did Braille's six-dot cell develop?
It grew from a 12-dot system. Charles Barbier's 12-dot code reached a Paris school for blind students in 1821. By 1824, Louis Braille's six-dot cell was small enough for one fingertip; in 1829, he published a system for words and music. Older accounts called it military “night writing”; 2022 research places Barbier's work in broader efforts to help people shut out of print.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsShows dots 6 and 8; no fixed reading.
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 dots 68 · Braille dots 6 and 8 · Braille pattern 68 · Unicode Braille
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⢠\28A0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.