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⠬ U+282C, ⠬ BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-346 ← ⠫ [U+282B] Braille Patterns ⠭ → [U+282D]

Translingual

A character of the braille script, originally used to transcribe the French letter ò. Some alphabets use it for a variant of u because it is a reflection of the braille letter ⠥ u, or approximate its English use as ing.

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.

Punctuation mark

⠬

1. (German Braille) (the section marker, §)

Letter

⠬

1. (German Braille) A letter rendering the print digraph ie
2. (Spanish Braille, Navajo Braille) ó
3. (Polish Braille) ó
4. (Czech Braille) ú
5. (Hungarian Braille) ú
6. (Lithuanian Braille) ų
7. (Latvian Braille) ū
8. (Esperanto Braille) ŭ
9. (IPA Braille) ʌ

Non-Latin transliteration

1. (International Greek Braille) ὸ (ò) [as in French]
2. (Persian Braille) ژ (zh)
3. (Ethiopic Braille) ኝ (ñᵊ)
4. (Bharati Braille) ङ (ṅa)
5. (Thai Braille) ช (ch)
6. (Cantonese Braille) The rime aai

Symbol

⠬

1. (music) minor third.

See also

Braille script navigation

• Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠬⟩:    ⡬   ⢬   ⣬

English

Letter

⠬ (ing)

1. Renders the print sequence -ing, including the suffix -ing.

Usage notes

• Cannot appear at the beginning of a word. Otherwise, this is used for any sequence of the letters ing within a word, as in ginger and finger, unless the writer judges this would cause problems with legibility, as in lingerie, or unless it spans the elements of a compound word.

French

Punctuation mark

⠬ (*)

1. A (foot)note marker, equivalent to print *, †, etc., or to English Braille ⠔⠔.

Usage notes

Followed by a number or letter for a numbered footnote.

Letter

⠬ (ò)

1. ò (in foreign words)

Contraction

⠬ (on)

1. The letter sequence on, including the independent word on.

Usage notes

• The sequence on may appear anywhere in its word.

Japanese

Syllable

⠬ (romaji yu)

1. The hiragana syllable ゆ (yu) or the katakana syllable ユ (yu) in Japanese braille.

Korean

Etymology

• A reversed ⠥ (o).

Letter

⠬ • (yo)

1. The vowel ㅛ (yo).

Mandarin

Letter

⠬

1. (Mainland Braille) The rime yu/-ü
2. (Taiwan Braille) The rime ye/-ie
3. (Two-Cell Braille) The onset du- or the rime -éi

Punctuation mark

⠬ (§)

1. (Two-Cell Braille) the section marker

Braille script navigation

• Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠬⟩:    ⡬   ⢬   ⣬