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U+2838, ⠸
BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-456

[U+2837]
Braille Patterns
[U+2839]

Translingual

The 59th character of the braille script.

Symbol

  1. (English Braille) A logogram prefix:
    ⠸⠉ cannot, ⠸⠍ many, ⠸⠓ had, ⠸⠮ their, ⠸⠎ spirit, ⠸⠺ world
  2. (English Braille) Marks a long or stressed syllable
  3. (Unified English Braille) Line marker (as in poetry)
  4. (French Braille) The emphasis marker (bold, italic, underline)
  5. (Chinese Two-Cell Braille) (parenthetical; used to supply a synonym)

Usage notes

  • (English Braille) Metrical use abolished in Unified English Braille.

Letter

  1. (Hungarian Braille) A letter rendering the print digraph ly
  2. (Slovak Braille) ľ
  3. (Bharati braille) ḷa
  4. (Chinese Braille) The rime yun/-ün
  5. (Taiwan Braille) The rime wang/-uang
  6. (Cantonese Braille) The rime am

Punctuation mark

  1. (Czech Braille)|
  2. (IPA Braille) Marks non-combining modifiers, such as prosody marks and tone letters
    ⠸⠃ ˈ◌, ⠸⠆ ˌ◌, ⠸⠳|, ⠸⠿ , ⠸⠇ ◌‿◌, ⠸⠮ , ⠸⠫ , ⠸⠙ ↗, ⠸⠴ ↘
    ⠸⠈⠉ ˥, ⠸⠉ ˦, ⠸⠒ ˧, ⠸⠤ ˨, ⠸⠠⠤ ˩, ⠸⠌ ˩˥, ⠸⠡ ˥˩, ⠸⠊ ˧˥, ⠸⠔ ˩˧, ⠸⠑ ˥˧ (?), ⠸⠢ ˧˩ (?), ⠸⠲ ˨˦˨, ⠸⠚ ˦˨˦ (?)
    ⠸⠕

See also

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