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Braille pattern dots-1246

braille pattern

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ17021689 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Braille pattern dots-1246 ( ⠫ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with both top, the middle left, and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both top, the upper-middle left, and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+282b, and in Braille ASCII with the dollar sign: $.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-1246 is used to represent a voiced dental or alveolar plosive, such as /d/ or /d̪/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.

Table of unified braille values

Other braille

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-1246 are Braille patterns 12467, 12468, and 124678, 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 2358, 12358, 23458, and 123458 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-1246, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 01246, 12467, and 012467 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 2358, 12358, 23458, or 123458

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-1246 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

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The public source identifies “Braille pattern dots-1246” as braille pattern. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Braille, pattern and dots-1246.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1246, 1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Braille, pattern and dots-1246 providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17021689. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1246 and 1978.

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This entry incorporates text from “Braille pattern dots-1246” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.