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⠪	U+282A, ⠪ BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-246

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Translingual

The 39th character of the braille script.

Etymology

Invented by Louis Braille, braille cells were arranged in numerical order and assigned to letters of the French alphabet. Most braille alphabets follow this assignment for the 26 letters of the basic Latin alphabet, or for the equivalents of those letters in a non-Latin script.

The first ten braille letters are ⠁⠃⠉⠙⠑⠋⠛⠓⠊⠚, usually assigned to the Latin letters a–j. The next ten repeat that pattern with the addition of a dot at the lower left, the third ten with two dots on the bottom, and the fourth with a dot on the bottom right. The fifth decade is like the first, but shifted downward. Many languages which use braille letters beyond the basic 26 for simple letters in their script follow an approximation of the English values for the additional letters.

Letter

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(English Braille) A letter rendering the print sequence ow
(Igbo, Yoruba Braille) ọ
(French Braille) œ
(Dutch Braille) oe (pronounced [u])
(German Braille, Swedish Braille, Finnish Braille, Estonian Braille, Icelandic Braille, Turkish Braille) ö
(Danish Braille) ø
(Hungarian Braille) ó
(Czech Braille) ó
(Polish Braille) ś
(Lithuanian Braille) į
(Latvian Braille) ī
(Romanian Braille) ţ
(Greek Braille) οι (oi/œ)
(Russian Braille) э (é) [dubious: it may be ⠣]
(Arabic Braille) أو‎ ’au
(Bharati braille) au
(Chinese Braille) The rime ai
(Chinese Two-Cell Braille) The onset m- or the rimes -é or -ó
(Taiwan Braille) The rime yao/-iao
(Cantonese Braille) The rime oek
(Vietnamese Braille) ơ
(Thai Braille) The vowel ึ short eu
(Korean Braille) ㅡ
(IPA Braille) œ