U+281E "⠞" Braille Pattern Dots-2345 Unicode Character

U+281E "⠞" Braille Pattern Dots-2345 is a specific cell in the Braille system that represents a raised dot configuration of dots two, three, four, and five, distinguished by the absence of dot one in the top left position and dot six in the bottom right. In the standard English Braille alphabet, this character typically corresponds to the letter "T", though the exact meaning can vary depending on the braille contraction tables or language in use, as Unicode assigns it a fixed visual pattern rather than a fixed linguistic value. This character is part of the Braille Patterns block, which encodes all 256 possible dot combinations in a standard 2 by 3 braille cell grid.

General Properties

Code Point	U+281E
Version Added	3.0
Name	Braille Pattern Dots-2345
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 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x281E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000281E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u281e

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