Braille pattern dots-15
braille pattern
The Braille pattern dots-15 ( ⠑ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with the top left and middle right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top left and right upper-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2811, and in Braille ASCII with E.
Unified Braille
In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-15 is used to represent unrounded, near-mid, front vowels, such as /e/ or /ɛ/. It is also used for the number 5.
Table of unified braille values
Other braille
Plus dots 7 and 8
Related to Braille pattern dots-15 are Braille patterns 157, 158, and 1578, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.
Related 8-dot kantenji patterns
In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 26, 126, 246, and 1246 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-15, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 015, 157, and 0157 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.
Kantenji using braille patterns 26, 126, 246, or 1246
This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-15 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.
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