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U+2828, ⠨
BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-46

[U+2827]
Braille Patterns
[U+2829]

Translingual

The 61st character of the braille script

Symbol

  1. (English Braille) Emphasis mark (italics, bold, underline)
  2. (English Braille) A prefix marking various letter sequences:
    ⠨⠙ -ound, ⠨⠞ -ount, ⠨⠑ -ance, ⠨⠎ -less, ⠨⠝ -sion
  3. (French Braille, Greek Braille, Russian Braille) Capital-letter mark
  4. (German Braille) $
  5. (Icelandic Braille) %
  6. (Czech Braille) Indicates a capital Greek letter
  7. (Chinese Two-Cell Braille) Indicates a proper name
  8. (IPA Braille) Indicates that the following letter is to be read with its Greek value, following academic conventions
    ⠨⠋ ɸ, ⠨⠃ β, ⠨⠹ θ, ⠨⠛ ɣ, ⠨⠯ χ
    Also marks ten user-defined symbols:
    ⠨⠂, ⠨⠆, ⠨⠒, ⠨⠲, ⠨⠢, ⠨⠖, ⠨⠶, ⠨⠦, ⠨⠔, ⠨⠴

Usage notes

  • (English Braille) As a emphasis mark, it is doubled to emphasize four or more words.
    (Abolished in Unified English Braille: replaced with specific marks for italics, bold, etc.)
  • (English Braille) As a sequence prefix, it cannot occur at the beginning of a word.

Punctuation mark

  1. (English Braille) decimal point

Letter

  1. (Slovak Braille) ĺ
  2. (Arabic Braille) إ‎ (ʾi)
  3. (Bharati braille) kha
  4. (Hausa Braille) ƙ
  5. (Taiwan Braille) The rime yang/-iang
  6. (Cantonese Braille) The rime ak
  7. (Korean Braille) Initial (j)

See also

(Braille script):