U+281A "⠚" Braille Pattern Dots-245 Unicode Character

U+281A "⠚" Braille Pattern Dots-245 is a braille cell representation with raised dots at positions two, four, and five in the standard six dot braille grid. This specific pattern is used in various braille systems to represent different letters or sounds depending on the language, such as the letter J in English braille, the semivowel YA in Japanese braille, or the consonant JA in Indian braille scripts. As a tactile writing character, it is part of the larger set of 64 possible braille dot combinations that encode alphabets, numbers, punctuation, and contractions, facilitating literacy and communication for visually impaired individuals across linguistic traditions globally.

General Properties

Code Point	U+281A
Version Added	3.0
Name	Braille Pattern Dots-245
Block	Braille Patterns
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	⠚
HTML Hex Encoding	⠚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xA0 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x281A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000281A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u281a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Braille
Script Extensions	Braille
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Pattern Syntax	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other