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Translingual
A character of the braille script, originally used to transcribe the French letter œ. Some alphabets use it for a variant of o because it is a reflection of the braille letter ⠕ o.
Etymology
Invented by Louis Braille, braille cells were arranged in numerical order and assigned to the letters of the French alphabet. Most braille alphabets follow this assignment for the 26 letters of the basic Latin alphabet or, in non-Latin scripts, for the transliterations of those letters. In such alphabets, the first ten braille letters (the first decade: ⠁⠃⠉⠙⠑⠋⠛⠓⠊⠚) are assigned to the Latin letters A to J and to the digits 1 to 9 and 0. (Apart from '2', the even digits all have three dots: ⠃⠙⠋⠓⠚.)
The letters of the first decade are those cells with at least one dot in the top row and at least one in the left column, but none in the bottom row. The next decade repeat the pattern with the addition of a dot at the lower left, the third decade with two dots in the bottom row, and the fourth with a dot on the bottom right. The fifth decade is like the first, but shifted downward one row. The first decade is supplemented by the two characters with dots in the right column and none in the bottom row, and that supplement is propagated to the other decades using the generation rules above. Finally, there are four characters with no dots in the top two rows. Many languages that use braille letters beyond the 26 of the basic Latin alphabet follow an approximation of the English or French values for additional letters.
Letter
⠪
- (German Braille, Swedish Braille, Finnish Braille, Estonian Braille, Icelandic Braille, Turkish Braille) ö
- (Danish Braille) ø
- (Igbo, Yoruba Braille) ọ
- (Vietnamese Braille) ơ
- (Hungarian Braille) ó
- (Czech Braille) ó
- (Dutch Braille) oe (pronounced )
- (Lithuanian Braille) į
- (Latvian Braille) ī
- (Polish Braille) ś
- (Romanian Braille) ţ
- (IPA Braille) œ
- Non-Latin transliteration
- (International Greek Braille) ό (ó)
- (Greek Braille) οι (oi/œ)
- (Russian Braille) э (é)
- (Arabic Braille) أو (ʾa)
- (Bharati Braille) औ and ◌ौ (au)
- (Thai Braille) The vowel ◌ึ (short eu)
- (Cantonese Braille) The rime oek
Symbol
⠪ (♩)
- (music) A quarter A note.
See also
English
Letter
⠪ (ow)
- Renders the print sequence ow.
Usage notes
- This is used for any sequence of the letters ow within a word, as in toward.
Coordinate terms
- ⠳ ou
French
Letter
⠪ (œ)
- The letter œ
Contraction
⠪
- The independent word son.
- The letter sequence im-
- The letter sequence -ition.
Usage notes
- The sequences im- and -ition must appear at the beginning and at the end of their word, respectively.
- im- must be followed by one of the letters b, m, p .
Numeral
⠪ (9)
- (in the context of the Antoine number sign ⠠) 9
Japanese
Syllable
⠪ (romaji ko)
Korean
Etymology
- ⠕ (i) and ⠪ (eu) are related through reflection.
Letter
⠪ • (eu)
- The vowel ㅡ (eu).
Luxembourgish
Numeral
⠪ (9)
- The digit 9.
See also
Mandarin
Letter
⠪
- (Mainland Braille) The rime ai
- (Taiwan Braille) The rime yao/-iao
- (Two-Cell Braille) The onset m- or the rimes -é or -ó
Contraction
⠪
- (Two-Cell Braille) 没 (méi)