| ⠀ | ⠁ | ⠃ | ⠉ | ⠙ | ⠑ | ⠋ | ⠛ | ⠓ | ⠊ | ⠚ | ⠈ | ⠘ |
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| ⠄ | ⠅ | ⠇ | ⠍ | ⠝ | ⠕ | ⠏ | ⠟ | ⠗ | ⠎ | ⠞ | ⠌ | ⠜ |
| ⠤ | ⠥ | ⠧ | ⠭ | ⠽ | ⠵ | ⠯ | ⠿ | ⠷ | ⠮ | ⠾ | ⠬ | ⠼ |
| ⠠ | ⠡ | ⠣ | ⠩ | ⠹ | ⠱ | ⠫ | ⠻ | ⠳ | ⠪ | ⠺ | ⠨ | ⠸ |
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⠂ | ⠆ | ⠒ | ⠲ | ⠢ | ⠖ | ⠶ | ⠦ | ⠔ | ⠴ | ⠐ | ⠰ |
The Braille pattern dots-1 ( ⠁ ) is a 6-dot or 8-dot braille cell with the top left dot raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2801, and in Braille ASCII with "A".
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| Unicode name | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1 | |
| Encodings | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 10241 | U+2801 |
| UTF-8 | 226 160 129 | E2 A0 81 |
| Numeric character reference | ⠁ | ⠁ |
| Braille ASCII | 65 | 41 |
In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-1 is used to represent open, unrounded vowel sound, like /æ/ or /ɑ/, such as the Latin letter A, Greek alpha, Cyrillic А, Hebrew/Arabic aleph, etc. It is also used to signify the number 1.
| Italian Braille | A |
|---|---|
| French Braille | A |
| English Braille | A |
| German Braille | A |
| Bharati Braille | अ / ਅ / અ / অ / ଅ / అ / ಅ / അ / அ / අ |
| Icelandic Braille | A |
| IPA Braille | /a/ |
| Russian Braille | А |
| Slovak Braille | A |
| Arabic Braille | ا |
| Persian Braille | ا |
| Irish Braille | A |
| Thai Braille | ◌ะ |
| Luxembourgish Braille | a (minuscule) |
| Japanese Braille | a / あ / ア |
|---|---|
| Korean Braille | g- / ㄱ |
| Mainland Chinese Braille | tone 1 |
| Taiwanese Braille | tone 0 |
| Two-Cell Chinese Braille | g- -èn |
| Nemeth Braille | not an independent symbol |
| Gardner Salinas Braille | "a" |
| Algerian Braille | ا |
Related to Braille pattern dots-1 are Braille patterns 17, 18, and 178, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.
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| Unicode name | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-17 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-18 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-178 | |||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 10305 | U+2841 | 10369 | U+2881 | 10433 | U+28C1 |
| UTF-8 | 226 161 129 | E2 A1 81 | 226 162 129 | E2 A2 81 | 226 163 129 | E2 A3 81 |
| Numeric character reference | ⡁ | ⡁ | ⢁ | ⢁ | ⣁ | ⣁ |
| dots 17 | dots 18 | dots 178 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gardner Salinas Braille | A (capital) | α (alpha) | |
| Luxembourgish Braille | A (capital) | ||
In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 2, 12, 24, and 124 are the 8-dot braille patterns related to Braille pattern dots-1, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 01, 17, and 017 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.
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| Unicode name | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-24 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-124 | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 10242 | U+2802 | 10243 | U+2803 | 10250 | U+280A | 10251 | U+280B |
| UTF-8 | 226 160 130 | E2 A0 82 | 226 160 131 | E2 A0 83 | 226 160 138 | E2 A0 8A | 226 160 139 | E2 A0 8B |
| Numeric character reference | ⠂ | ⠂ | ⠃ | ⠃ | ⠊ | ⠊ | ⠋ | ⠋ |
This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-1 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.