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⠼
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Translingual
The 53rd character of the braille script
Usage notes
Not used for the hash symbol #, which is how it is sometimes misleadingly transcribed.
In French Braille, ⠠ is used for numbers in the Antoine system, which is more common in academic texts.
Letter
⠼
- (English Braille) A letter rendering the print sequence -ble.
- (Latvian Braille) ž
- (Bharati braille) ṇa
- (Chinese Braille) The rime eng
- (Chinese Two-Cell Braille) The rime -ěi
- (IPA Braille) ɹ
Usage notes
- (English Braille) Cannot appear at the beginning of a word. Abolished in Universal English Braille.
Punctuation mark
⠼
- used to indicate that the subsequent Braille characters are to be read as digits rather than as letters
- ⠼⠁ 1, ⠼⠃ 2, ⠼⠉ 3, ⠼⠙ 4, ⠼⠑ 5, ⠼⠋ 6, ⠼⠛ 7, ⠼⠓ 8, ⠼⠊ 9, ⠼⠚ 0
- (Chinese Two-Cell Braille) Reduplication mark
Usage notes
- As part of a word it reduplicates a syllable; standing on its own it reduplicates the previous word. Also used as a prefix for numbers.
See also
(Braille script): ⠀ ⠁ ⠂ ⠄ ⠈ ⠐ ⠠
- Braille eight-dot extensions from ⠼: ⡼ ⢼ ⣼