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Translingual

A character of the braille script, originally used as a symbol prefix. Some alphabets use it for a variant of b because it is a reflection of the braille letter b.

Etymology

Symbol

  1. (Dutch Braille) marks a word in all caps
  2. (Czech Braille) Indicates a (lower-case) Greek letter
  3. (IPA Braille) Marks the brackets that demarcate a passage in IPA:
    ⠘⠌ /, ⠘⠷
  4. (music) 2nd octave.

Letter

  1. (Hungarian Braille) ä
Non-Latin transliteration
  1. (Bharati Braille) (bha)
  2. (Tibetan Braille) superscript (ra)
  3. (Burmese Braille) (pha)
  4. (Cantonese Braille) The rime aan

See also

English

Symbol

  1. A logogram prefix for the following words:
    ⠘⠮ these, ⠘⠹ those, ⠘⠥ upon, ⠘⠱ whose, ⠘⠺ word
  2. A punctuation prefix found in:
    ⠘⠉ ©, ⠘⠗ ®, ⠘⠞
  3. (meter) Marks a short or unstressed syllable

Usage notes

  • Metrical use has been abolished in Unified English Braille.

French

Prefix

  1. currency prefix:
    ⠘⠽ ¥, ⠘⠑ , ⠘⠎ $, ⠘⠇ £
  2. marks Greek letters, for example:
    ⠘⠍ μ, ⠘⠏ π
  3. prefix for some other mathematical symbols:
    ⠘⠣ ≤, ⠘⠜ ≥.
  4. used in comic strips:
    ⠘⠻ (speech bubble), ⠘⠳ (thought bubble)

See also

(basic symbol prefix)

Contraction

  1. The letter sequence bl.
  2. The letter sequence -able.

Usage notes

  • The sequence bl may appear anywhere in its word, as long as it is followed by at least one other letter. At the end of a word it is read -able.

Korean

Letter

(b-)

  1. Syllable-intial (b).

Coordinate terms

  • Syllable-final .

Contraction

(ba)

  1. The syllable or syllable onset (ba).

Mandarin

Symbol

  1. (Two-Cell Braille) parenthetical; used to spell out omitted words or syllables

Letter

  1. (Taiwan Braille) The rime yuan/-üan