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BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-46

Braille Patterns

Translingual

A character of the braille script, originally used as a capitalization mark, though some alphabets use it for a variant of k because it is a reflection of the braille letter k.

Etymology

Symbol

  1. (Greek Braille, Russian Braille) Capital-letter mark
  2. (Czech Braille) Indicates a capital Greek letter
  3. (German Braille) $
  4. (Icelandic Braille) %
  5. (Navajo Braille) A prefix marking the ogonek:
    ⠨⠁ ą, ⠨⠑ ę, ⠨⠊ į, ⠨⠕ ǫ, ⠨⠷ ą́, ⠨⠮ ę́, ⠨⠌ į́, ⠨⠬ ǫ́
  6. (IPA Braille) Indicates that the following letter is to be read with its Greek value, following academic conventions
    ⠨⠋ ɸ, ⠨⠃ β, ⠨⠹ θ, ⠨⠛ ɣ, ⠨⠯ χ
    Also marks ten user-defined symbols:
    ⠨⠂, ⠨⠆, ⠨⠒, ⠨⠲, ⠨⠢, ⠨⠖, ⠨⠶, ⠨⠦, ⠨⠔, ⠨⠴
  7. (music) 5th octave.

Letter

  1. (Slovak Braille) ĺ
  2. (Hausa Braille) ƙ
Non-Latin transliteration
  1. (Arabic Braille) إ (ʾi)
  2. (Bharati Braille) (kha)
  3. (Burmese Braille) (kha)
  4. (Cantonese Braille) The rime ak

See also

English

Punctuation mark

  1. the decimal point, whether typeset in print as a comma or as a period.

Symbol

  1. Emphasis mark. Equivalent to italics, bold, or underline in print.
  2. A prefix marking various letter sequences that are common at the ends of words:
    (Unified English Braille) ⠨⠙ -ound, ⠨⠞ -ount, ⠨⠑ -ance, ⠨⠎ -less, ⠨⠝ -sion
  3. Marks the single following letter as Greek

Usage notes

  • As an emphasis mark, it is doubled to emphasize four or more words.
    Abolished in Unified English Braille, and replaced with specific marks for italics, bold, etc.
  • The marked letter sequences can occur in the middle or end of a word, but not at the beginning. They need not be a morpheme, and may cross syllables, as with ance in cancer.

French

Symbol

  1. The capital-letter indicator.

Derivations

⠨⠨ (all caps)
⠒⠨ (begin all-cap text)

Contraction

(eur)

  1. The letter sequence eur.

Usage notes

  • The sequence eur may appear anywhere in its word.

Korean

Letter

(j-)

  1. Syllable-intial (j).

Coordinate terms

  • Syllable-final .

Contraction

(ja)

  1. The syllable or syllable onset (ja).

Mandarin

Symbol

  1. (Two-Cell Braille) Marks a proper name

Letter

  1. (Taiwan Braille) The rime yang/-iang