Translingual

The 53rd character of the braille script

Usage notes

Not used for the hash symbol #, which is how it is sometimes misleadingly transcribed.

In French Braille, ⠠ is used for numbers in the Antoine system, which is more common in academic texts.

Letter

⠼

1. (English Braille) A letter rendering the print sequence -ble.
2. (Latvian Braille) ž
3. (Bharati braille) ṇa
4. (Chinese Braille) The rime eng
5. (Chinese Two-Cell Braille) The rime -ěi
6. (IPA Braille) ɹ

Usage notes

• (English Braille) Cannot appear at the beginning of a word. Abolished in Universal English Braille.

Punctuation mark

⠼

1. used to indicate that the subsequent Braille characters are to be read as digits rather than as letters

   ⠼⠁ 1, ⠼⠃ 2, ⠼⠉ 3, ⠼⠙ 4, ⠼⠑ 5, ⠼⠋ 6, ⠼⠛ 7, ⠼⠓ 8, ⠼⠊ 9, ⠼⠚ 0

2. (Chinese Two-Cell Braille) Reduplication mark

Usage notes

• As part of a word it reduplicates a syllable; standing on its own it reduplicates the previous word. Also used as a prefix for numbers.

See also

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

⠃   ⠅   ⠆   ⠘   ⠨   ⠰   ⠉   ⠒   ⠤  

⠑   ⠡   ⠢   ⠊   ⠌   ⠔  

⠇   ⠸   ⠎   ⠱   ⠣   ⠜   ⠪   ⠕  

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

⠏   ⠹   ⠧   ⠼   ⠫   ⠝   ⠮   ⠵  

⠺   ⠗   ⠞   ⠳   ⠛   ⠭   ⠶  

⠟   ⠻   ⠷   ⠾   ⠯   ⠽   ⠿

• • Braille eight-dot extensions from ⠼:  ⡼   ⢼  ⣼