U+2826 "⠦" Braille Pattern Dots-236 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⠦
U+2826 "⠦" Braille Pattern Dots-236 is a cell in the Braille Patterns block representing a tactile configuration with raised dots in positions two, three, and six of the standard six dot Braille grid. In Unified English Braille, this character is primarily used to represent the letter combination "ow," while in other Braille systems it can stand for the mathematical less than sign or serve as a punctuation mark for the opening quotation symbol. Generally coded using eight bit patterns for digital accessibility, this character ensures text based representation of Braille across computing platforms and assistive technologies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2826 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Braille Pattern Dots-236 |
| 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 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2826 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002826 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2826 |
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 |