Translingual

The 61st character of the braille script

Symbol

⠨

1. (English Braille) Emphasis mark (italics, bold, underline)
2. (English Braille) A prefix marking various letter sequences:

   ⠨⠙ -ound, ⠨⠞ -ount, ⠨⠑ -ance, ⠨⠎ -less, ⠨⠝ -sion

3. (French Braille, Greek Braille, Russian Braille) Capital-letter mark
4. (German Braille) $
5. (Icelandic Braille) %
6. (Czech Braille) Indicates a capital Greek letter
7. (Chinese Two-Cell Braille) Indicates a proper name
8. (IPA Braille) Indicates that the following letter is to be read with its Greek value, following academic conventions

   ⠨⠋ ɸ, ⠨⠃ β, ⠨⠹ θ, ⠨⠛ ɣ, ⠨⠯ χ

   Also marks ten user-defined symbols:

   ⠨⠂, ⠨⠆, ⠨⠒, ⠨⠲, ⠨⠢, ⠨⠖, ⠨⠶, ⠨⠦, ⠨⠔, ⠨⠴

Usage notes

• (English Braille) As a emphasis mark, it is doubled to emphasize four or more words.

  (Abolished in Unified English Braille: replaced with specific marks for italics, bold, etc.)

• (English Braille) As a sequence prefix, it cannot occur at the beginning of a word.

Punctuation mark

⠨

1. (English Braille) decimal point

Letter

⠨

1. (Slovak Braille) ĺ
2. (Arabic Braille) إ‎ (ʾi)
3. (Bharati braille) kha
4. (Hausa Braille) ƙ
5. (Taiwan Braille) The rime yang/-iang
6. (Cantonese Braille) The rime ak
7. (Korean Braille) Initial ㅈ ‎(j)

See also

(Braille script):  ⠀   ⠁   ⠂   ⠄   ⠈   ⠐   ⠠  

⠃   ⠅   ⠆   ⠘   ⠨   ⠰   ⠉   ⠒   ⠤  

⠑   ⠡   ⠢   ⠊   ⠌   ⠔  

⠇   ⠸   ⠎   ⠱   ⠣   ⠜   ⠪   ⠕  

⠋   ⠙   ⠓   ⠚   ⠍   ⠩   ⠥   ⠬   ⠖   ⠲   ⠦   ⠴  

⠏   ⠹   ⠧   ⠼   ⠫   ⠝   ⠮   ⠵  

⠺   ⠗   ⠞   ⠳   ⠛   ⠭   ⠶  

⠟   ⠻   ⠷   ⠾   ⠯   ⠽   ⠿

• • Braille eight-dot extensions from ⠨:  ⡨   ⢨  ⣨