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U+283C, ⠼
BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-3456

[U+283B]
Braille Patterns
[U+283D]

Translingual

The 53rd character of the braille script

Usage notes

Not used for the hash symbol #, which is how it is sometimes misleadingly transcribed.

In French Braille, is used for numbers in the Antoine system, which is more common in academic texts.

Letter

  1. (English Braille) A letter rendering the print sequence -ble.
  2. (Latvian Braille) ž
  3. (Bharati braille) ṇa
  4. (Chinese Braille) The rime eng
  5. (Chinese Two-Cell Braille) The rime -ěi
  6. (IPA Braille) ɹ

Usage notes

  • (English Braille) Cannot appear at the beginning of a word. Abolished in Universal English Braille.

Punctuation mark

  1. used to indicate that the subsequent Braille characters are to be read as digits rather than as letters
    ⠼⠁ 1, ⠼⠃ 2, ⠼⠉ 3, ⠼⠙ 4, ⠼⠑ 5, ⠼⠋ 6, ⠼⠛ 7, ⠼⠓ 8, ⠼⠊ 9, ⠼⠚ 0
  2. (Chinese Two-Cell Braille) Reduplication mark

Usage notes

  • As part of a word it reduplicates a syllable; standing on its own it reduplicates the previous word. Also used as a prefix for numbers.

See also

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    • Braille eight-dot extensions from :