U+2885 "⢅" Braille Pattern Dots-138 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⢅
U+2885 "⢅" Braille Pattern Dots-138 is a representation of a Braille cell with raised dots in positions one, three, and eight, corresponding to the upper left, middle left, and lower right dots of the standard six or eight dot Braille grid. This character is part of the Braille Patterns block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of dots in an eight dot cell, allowing for the digital representation of Braille text and symbols. In the context of eight dot Braille systems, this specific pattern can be used for specialized notation in mathematics, music, or foreign language transcription, depending on the regional Braille standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2885 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Braille Pattern Dots-138 |
| 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 0xA2 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2885 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002885 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2885 |
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 |