Braille pattern dots-3456
braille pattern
The Braille pattern dots-3456 ( ⠼ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with the top right, middle right, and both bottom dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top right, upper-middle right, and both lower-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+283c, and in Braille ASCII with a number sign: #.
Unified Braille
In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-3456 is used as a number indicator.
Table of unified braille values
† Abolished in Unified English Braille
Other braille
Plus dots 7 and 8
Related to Braille pattern dots-3456 are Braille patterns 34567, 34568, and 345678, 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 5678, 15678, 45678, and 145678 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-3456, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 03456, 34567, and 034567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.
Kantenji using braille patterns 5678, 15678, 45678, or 145678
This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-3456 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.
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