U+2820 "⠠" Braille Pattern Dots-6 Unicode Character

U+2820 "⠠" Braille Pattern Dots-6 is a Braille cell that contains only the dot in position six of the standard six dot Braille grid, making it one of the single dot patterns in the Braille Patterns block. In the Unified English Braille system, this character is commonly used as a capitalization indicator, meaning it is placed before a word or abbreviation to signal that the following letters should be read as capitals. It also serves various functions in different Braille codes, such as an emphasis marker or a prefix for specific contractions, and in the context of digital representation it provides a way to encode this fundamental tactile symbol in plain text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2820
Version Added	3.0
Name	Braille Pattern Dots-6
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 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2820
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002820
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2820

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