U+2890 "⢐" Braille Pattern Dots-58 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2890 "⢐" Braille Pattern Dots-58 is a tactile writing symbol used within the standardized Braille Patterns block, specifically representing a cell where dots at positions 5 and 8 are raised. In standard six-dot Braille, dots are numbered 1, 2, 3 down the left column and 4, 5, 6 down the right, but this character employs an extended eight-dot grid; dots 5 and 8 correspond to the bottom-right dot in the standard six-dot cell and the bottom-right dot in the extended row, respectively. This glyph is part of the Unicode standard to allow digital representation of Braille for both literary and computer notation systems, enabling screen readers and refreshable Braille displays to accurately render the raised dot patterns. Visually, the character appears as a small rectangular array of six or eight potential dot positions, with only the two specified dots filled in, making it a binary code within the wider Braille encoding system.

General Properties

Code Point U+2890
Version Added 3.0
Name Braille Pattern Dots-58
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 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2890
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002890
C/C++/Java Escape \u2890

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