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⠣ U+2823, ⠣ BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-126 ← ⠢ [U+2822] Braille Patterns ⠤ → [U+2824]

Translingual

A character of the braille script, originally used to transcribe the French letter ê. Some alphabets approximate the English use as gh.

Etymology

More information

Invented by Louis Braille, braille cells were arranged in numerical order and assigned to the letters of the French alphabet. Most braille alphabets follow this assignment for the 26 letters of the basic Latin alphabet or, in non-Latin scripts, for the transliterations of those letters. In such alphabets, the first ten braille letters (the first decade: ⠁⠃⠉⠙⠑⠋⠛⠓⠊⠚) are assigned to the Latin letters A to J and to the digits 1 to 9 and 0. (Apart from '2', the even digits all have three dots: ⠃⠙⠋⠓⠚.)

The letters of the first decade are those cells with at least one dot in the top row and at least one in the left column, but none in the bottom row. The next decade repeat the pattern with the addition of a dot at the lower left, the third decade with two dots in the bottom row, and the fourth with a dot on the bottom right. The fifth decade is like the first, but shifted downward one row. The first decade is supplemented by the two characters with dots in the right column and none in the bottom row, and that supplement is propagated to the other decades using the generation rules above. Finally, there are four characters with no dots in the top two rows. Many languages that use braille letters beyond the 26 of the basic Latin alphabet follow an approximation of the English or French values for additional letters.

Letter

⠣

1. (Vietnamese Braille) ê [as in French Braille]
2. (German Braille) A letter rendering the print digraph eu
3. (Estonian Braille) õ
4. (Icelandic Braille) í
5. (Czech Braille) ě
6. (Romanian Braille) â
7. (Igbo Braille) A letter rendering the print digraph gh [as in English Braille]
8. (Turkish Braille) ğ
9. (Polish Braille) ł
10. (Hungarian Braille) z [symmetrical with s, sz, zs]
11. (Lithuanian Braille) ž
12. (IPA Braille) ɔ

Non-Latin transliteration

1. (International Greek Braille) ῆ (ẽ) [as in French]
2. (Greek Braille) αι (ai)
3. (Yugoslav Braille) lj ~ љ
4. (Russian Braille) э (é) [dubious: it may be ⠪]
5. (Arabic Braille) غ (gh)
6. (Ethiopic Braille) ሕ (ḥᵊ)
7. (Bharati Braille) घ (gha)
8. (Thai Braille) The vowel แ◌ (ae)
9. (Cantonese Braille) The rime oi

Punctuation mark

⠣

1. (Spanish Braille) (

Symbol

⠣ (♭)

1. (music) flat, ⟨♭⟩.

See also

Braille script navigation

⠀   ⠁   ⠂   ⠄   ⠈   ⠐   ⠠

⠃   ⠅   ⠆   ⠘   ⠨   ⠰   ⠉   ⠒   ⠤   ⠑   ⠡   ⠢   ⠊   ⠌   ⠔

⠇   ⠸   ⠪   ⠕   ⠣   ⠜   ⠎   ⠱   ⠋   ⠍   ⠖   ⠙   ⠩   ⠲   ⠓   ⠥   ⠦   ⠚   ⠬   ⠴

⠏   ⠹   ⠧   ⠼   ⠫   ⠝   ⠮   ⠵   ⠺   ⠗   ⠞   ⠳   ⠛   ⠭   ⠶

⠟   ⠻   ⠷   ⠾   ⠯   ⠽   ⠿

• Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠣⟩:    ⡣   ⢣   ⣣

English

Letter

⠣ (g͟h)

1. Renders the print digraph gh.

Usage notes

• This is used for the digraph gh (including ghost), not just any sequence of g + h. For example, Shanghai needs to be spelled out.

French

Letter

⠣ (ê)

1. The letter ê

Contraction

⠣

1. The independent word même.
2. The letter sequence fl [+V].
3. The letter sequence -ent.

Usage notes

• The sequence fl may appear anywhere in its word, as long as it is followed by a vowel.
• The sequence -ent must appear at the end of its word.

Numeral

⠣ (2)

1. (in the context of the Antoine number sign ⠠) 2

Japanese

Syllable

⠣ (romaji ki)

1. The hiragana syllable き (ki) or the katakana syllable キ (ki) in Japanese braille.

Korean

Etymology

⠣ (a) and ⠎ (eo) are related through inversion.

Letter

⠣ • (a)

1. The vowel ㅏ (a).

Luxembourgish

Numeral

⠣ (2)

1. The digit 2.

See also

Luxembourgish Braille digits: ⠡ 1, ⠣ 2, ⠩ 3, ⠹ 4, ⠱ 5, ⠫ 6, ⠻ 7, ⠳ 8, ⠪ 9, ⠼ 0

Mandarin

Letter

⠣

1. (Mainland Braille) The rime yin/-in
2. (Taiwan Braille) The rime o
3. (Two-Cell Braille) The onset hu- or the rimes -í, -ú, or -ǘ

Contraction

⠣

1. (Two-Cell Braille) 时 (shí)

Braille script navigation

⠀   ⠁   ⠂   ⠄   ⠈   ⠐   ⠠

⠃   ⠅   ⠆   ⠘   ⠨   ⠰   ⠉   ⠒   ⠤   ⠑   ⠡   ⠢   ⠊   ⠌   ⠔

⠇   ⠸   ⠪   ⠕   ⠣   ⠜   ⠎   ⠱   ⠋   ⠍   ⠖   ⠙   ⠩   ⠲   ⠓   ⠥   ⠦   ⠚   ⠬   ⠴

⠏   ⠹   ⠧   ⠼   ⠫   ⠝   ⠮   ⠵   ⠺   ⠗   ⠞   ⠳   ⠛   ⠭   ⠶

⠟   ⠻   ⠷   ⠾   ⠯   ⠽   ⠿

• Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠣⟩:    ⡣   ⢣   ⣣