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Translingual

A character of the braille script, originally used as a capitalization mark, though some alphabets use it for a variant of k because it is a reflection of the braille letter ⠅ k.

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.

Symbol

⠨

1. (Greek Braille, Russian Braille) Capital-letter mark [as in French Braille]
2. (Czech Braille) Indicates a capital Greek letter
3. (German Braille) $
4. (Icelandic Braille) %
5. (Navajo Braille) A prefix marking the ogonek:

   ⠨⠁ ą, ⠨⠑ ę, ⠨⠊ į, ⠨⠕ ǫ, ⠨⠷ ą́, ⠨⠮ ę́, ⠨⠌ į́, ⠨⠬ ǫ́

6. (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:

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

7. (music) 5th octave.

Letter

⠨

1. (Slovak Braille) ĺ
2. (Hausa Braille) ƙ

Non-Latin transliteration

1. (Arabic Braille) إ (ʾi)
2. (Bharati Braille) ख (kha)
3. (Burmese Braille) ခ (kha)
4. (Cantonese Braille) The rime ak

See also

Braille script navigation

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

English

Punctuation mark

⠨

1. the decimal point, whether typeset in print as a comma or as a period.

Symbol

⠨

1. Emphasis mark. Equivalent to italics, bold, or underline in print.
2. A prefix marking various letter sequences that are common at the ends of words:

   (Unified English Braille) ⠨⠙ -ound, ⠨⠞ -ount, ⠨⠑ -ance, ⠨⠎ -less, ⠨⠝ -sion

3. Marks the single following letter as Greek

Usage notes

• As an emphasis mark, it is doubled to emphasize four or more words.

  Abolished in Unified English Braille, and replaced with specific marks for italics, bold, etc.

• The marked letter sequences can occur in the middle or end of a word, but not at the beginning. They need not be a morpheme, and may cross syllables, as with ance in cancer.

French

Symbol

⠨

1. The capital-letter indicator.

Derivations

⠨⠨ (all caps)

⠒⠨ (begin all-cap text)

Contraction

⠨ (eur)

1. The letter sequence eur.

Usage notes

• The sequence eur may appear anywhere in its word.

Korean

Letter

⠨ • (j-)

1. Syllable-intial ㅈ (j).

Coordinate terms

• Syllable-final ⠅.

Contraction

⠨ • (ja)

1. The syllable or syllable onset 자 (ja).

Mandarin

Symbol

⠨

1. (Two-Cell Braille) Marks a proper name

Letter

⠨

1. (Taiwan Braille) The rime yang/-iang

Braille script navigation

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