Braille pattern dots-156

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The Braille pattern dots-156 ( ⠱ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with the upper left, and middle and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the upper left, and upper-middle and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2831, and in Braille ASCII with a colon: ":".

Character information

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Unicode name	BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-156
Encodings	decimal	hex
Unicode	10289	U+2831
UTF-8	226 160 177	E2 A0 B1
Numeric character reference	⠱	⠱
Braille ASCII	58	3A

Unified braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-156 is used to represent a guttural fricative or approximant, such as /h/, /ʜ/, or /ʕ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.

Other braille

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-156 are Braille patterns 1567, 1568, and 15678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

Character information

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Unicode name	BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1567		BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1568		BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-15678
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	10353	U+2871	10417	U+28B1	10481	U+28F1
UTF-8	226 161 177	E2 A1 B1	226 162 177	E2 A2 B1	226 163 177	E2 A3 B1
Numeric character reference	⡱	⡱	⢱	⢱	⣱	⣱

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 268, 1268, 2468, and 12468 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-156, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0156, 1567, and 01567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Character information

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Unicode name	BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-268		BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1268		BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2468		BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12468
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	10402	U+28A2	10403	U+28A3	10410	U+28AA	10411	U+28AB
UTF-8	226 162 162	E2 A2 A2	226 162 163	E2 A2 A3	226 162 170	E2 A2 AA	226 162 171	E2 A2 AB
Numeric character reference	⢢	⢢	⢣	⢣	⢪	⢪	⢫	⢫

Notes

Look up ⠱ , ⡱ , ⢱ , or ⣱ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.