Braille pattern dots-146 explained

The Braille pattern dots-146 is a 6-dot braille cell with both top, and the bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both top, and the lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2829, and in Braille ASCII with the percent sign: %.

Unified braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-146 is used to represent a voiceless palato-alveolar fricative, i.e. /ʃ/ and otherwise as needed.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French BrailleÎ, mathematical 3, cl, -ait, "cet"
English BrailleSh
English Contractionshall
German Brailleei
Bharati Brailleश / ਸ਼ / શ / শ / ଶ / శ / ಶ / ശ / ஶ / ශ / ش ‎[2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Braille/æ/
Russian Braille-->
Slovak Braille-->
Arabic Brailleش
Persian Brailleش
Irish BrailleSh
Thai Brailleเ◌อ oe
Luxembourgish Braille3 (three)
Braille-->

Other braille

Japanese Brailleku / く / ク
Korean Brailleyu / ㅠ
Mainland Chinese Braillewan, -uan
Taiwanese Brailleao / ㄠ
Two-Cell Chinese Braillezhu- -óu
Nemeth Brailledirectly under [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille3 [4]
Algerian Braille-->
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-146 are Braille patterns 1467, 1468, and 14678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 1467 dots 1468 dots 14678
Gardner Salinas Braille∂ (partial differential)∇ (nabla symbol)
Luxembourgish Braille[5] -->
Braille-->

Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-258, Braille pattern dots-1258, Braille pattern dots-2458 and Braille pattern dots-12458.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 258, 1258, 2458, and 12458 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-146, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0146, 1467, and 01467 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 258, 1258, 2458, or 12458

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-146 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 草 and 艹

Compounds of 禺

Compounds of 莫

Compounds of 丘

Compounds of 卉

Compounds of 升

Compounds of 黒

Other compounds

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: World Braille Usage. UNESCO. 2012-04-19. .
  2. Web site: Introduction to Bharati Braille. 25 April 2013. 5 April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130405042606/http://www.acharya.gen.in:8080/disabilities/bh_brl.php. dead.
  3. Web site: Nemeth Braille (Mathematics Braille) . 2012-04-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120421113105/http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/disabilities/nemeth_brl.php . 2012-04-21 .
  4. Web site: Index of Topics in Braille Section . Oregon State University Science Access Project Braille topics. . 2012-04-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120420124208/http://dots.physics.orst.edu/gs_index.html . 2012-04-20 .
  5. Book: UNESCO. World Braille Usage. 2013. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Washington, DC. 978-0-8444-9564-4. 88.
  6. Web site: ロービジョン相談と光学. 31 January 2014.
  7. Web site: 盲人と文字 -漢点字の世界. 27 December 2013.
  8. Web site: 漢点字. 27 December 2013.
  9. Web site: 漢点字入門. 30 December 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131231141822/http://www.kunijima.sakura.ne.jp/temp/taijyukai.pdf. 31 December 2013.

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