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
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