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⠳ U+2833, ⠳ BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1256 ← ⠲ [U+2832] Braille Patterns ⠴ → [U+2834]

Translingual

A character of the braille script, originally used to transcribe the French letter ü. Some alphabets use it for a variant of t because it is a reflection of the braille letter ⠞ t.

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.

Letter

⠳

1. (Spanish Braille, German Braille, Estonian Braille, Turkish Braille) ü [as in French Braille]
2. (Vietnamese Braille) ư
3. (Igbo Braille) ụ
4. (Lithuanian Braille) ū
5. (Hungarian Braille) A letter rendering the print digraph ty
6. (Czech Braille) ť
7. (Albanian Braille) zh
8. (Esperanto Braille) ĥ
9. (IPA Braille) ø

Non-Latin transliteration

1. (International Greek Braille) ύ (ú)
2. (Greek Braille) ηυ (êu)
3. (Yugoslav Braille) ѕ (dz) [Macedonian]
4. (Russian Braille) ю (yu)
5. (Arabic Braille) ؤ (ʾū)
6. (Ethiopic Braille) ዕ (ʿə)
7. (Bharati Braille) ऊ and ◌ू (ū)
8. (Thai Braille) ต t (dt)
9. (Cantonese Braille) The rime ui

Symbol

⠳ (♩)

1. (music) A quarter G note.

See also

Braille script navigation

• Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠳⟩:    ⡳   ⢳   ⣳

English

Letter

⠳ (ou)

1. Renders the print sequence ou.

Usage notes

• This is used for any sequence of the letters ou.

Coordinate terms

• ⠪ ow

Contraction

⠳

1. out

Usage notes

• This is used for the independent word out and where the word out is set off with an apostrophe or hyphen. It is not used otherwise for the letter sequence o-u-t, not even in non-hyphenated derivations such as without.

Symbol

⠳

1. the backslash \
2. (Unified English Braille) typographic arrow indicator

Usage notes

• Combined with angle-shaped letters to form various arrows. May be preceded with the Grade-1 marker ⟨⠰⟩ to avoid misreading as ou.

Derived terms

• ⠳⠕ →
• ⠳⠪ ←
• ⠳⠬ ↑
• ⠳⠩ ↓
• ⠳⠴⠩ ↲
• ⠳⠦⠩ ↳
• ⠳⠙⠬ ↰
• ⠳⠋⠬ ↱

French

Letter

⠳ (ü)

1. The letter ü

Contraction

⠳ (ou)

1. The letter sequence ou, including the independent word ou.

Usage notes

• The sequence ou may appear anywhere in its word, and may be the word.

Numeral

⠳ (8)

1. (in the context of the Antoine number sign ⠠) 8

Japanese

Syllable

⠳ (romaji shi)

1. The hiragana syllable し (shi) or the katakana syllable シ (shi) in Japanese braille.

Korean

Contraction

⠳ • (yeol)

1. The rime or syllable 열 (yeol).

Luxembourgish

Numeral

⠳ (8)

1. The digit 8.

See also

Luxembourgish Braille digits: ⠡ 1, ⠣ 2, ⠩ 3, ⠹ 4, ⠱ 5, ⠫ 6, ⠻ 7, ⠳ 8, ⠪ 9, ⠼ 0

Mandarin

Letter

⠳

1. (Mainland Braille) The rime you/-iu
2. (Taiwan Braille) The rime yu/-ü
3. (Two-Cell Braille) The onset xu- or the rime -áo

Braille script navigation

• Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠳⟩:    ⡳   ⢳   ⣳