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BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-25

Braille Patterns

Translingual

A character of the braille script, originally used as a colon. Some alphabets use it for a variant of c because it is a lowered version of the braille letter c.

Etymology

Letter

  1. (IPA Braille) ː (gemination or vowel length)
Non-Latin transliteration
  1. (Arabic Braille) the sukun, ـْ (no vowel)
  2. (Bharati Braille) (ña)
  3. (Thai Braille) The vowel ◌ู (long u)
  4. (Cantonese Braille) The rime oeng

Numeral

  1. (Ethiopic Braille, in the context of the number signs ...) The Ethiopic digit 3, ⠁⠒⠆.
    (Ethiopic also retains the international use as the colon, .)

Symbol

  1. (music) minor seventh.

See also

English

Punctuation mark

(:)

  1. : (colon)

Letter

(cc)

  1. Renders the print sequence -cc-.

Usage notes

  • Can only appear within a word where it does not contact an apostrophe or hyphen; at the end of a word it would be confused with a colon. Cannot span the elements of a compound word or an obvious affix, but acceptable in words like accept where the affix is obscure.

Prefix

  1. con-

Usage notes

Does not need to be an etymological prefix, but does need to be a full syllable at the beginning of a word, including in a compound word after a hyphen, or after a prefixed preposition by, to or into.

Symbol

  1. Starts or stops formatting within a word

See also

French

Punctuation mark

(:)

  1. The colon, ⟨:⟩.

Symbol

  1. (in the context of the Antoine number sign ) The division sign, ÷.

Contraction

  1. The letter sequence cr .
  2. The letter sequence con .

Usage notes

  • The sequences cr and con may appear anywhere in their word, as long as they are followed by at least one vowel or consonant letter, respectively.

Korean

Letter

(-n)

  1. Syllable-final (n).

Coordinate terms

  • Syllable-initial .

Luxembourgish

Punctuation mark

(:)

  1. The colon.

Mandarin

Letter

  1. (Mainland Braille) The rime wen/-un
  2. (Taiwan Braille) The rime wo/-uo
  3. (Two-Cell Braille) The onset y-