U+285B "⡛" Braille Pattern Dots-12457 Unicode Character

U+285B "⡛" Braille Pattern Dots-12457 is a symbol from the Unicode Braille Patterns block that represents a specific tactile cell used in the six dot Braille system. This particular pattern has dots raised at positions one, two, four, five, and seven, with position seven being part of the eight dot Braille extension that allows for additional characters. While standard six dot Braille only uses dots one through six, the inclusion of dot seven indicates this glyph is intended for computer Braille or other eight dot contexts where it may represent a particular letter, contraction, or phonetic value depending on the language and software being used.

General Properties

Code Point	U+285B
Version Added	3.0
Name	Braille Pattern Dots-12457
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 0xA1 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x285B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000285B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u285b

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