U+28A1 "⢡" Braille Pattern Dots-168 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⢡
U+28A1 "⢡" Braille Pattern Dots-168 is a specific braille symbol that represents a raised dot pattern in the six dot braille cell, with dots at positions one, six, and eight of the eight dot braille standard. In the eight dot braille system, this character is part of a larger set used to extend the traditional six dot braille alphabet for computer and technical notation, allowing for the representation of additional characters, symbols, or formatting. It appears as a small rectangular block with three filled dot positions, and while it does not have a direct meaning in standard literary braille, it is used in specialized braille encodings such as those for mathematics, music, or computer code.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+28A1 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Braille Pattern Dots-168 |
| 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 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x28A1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000028A1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u28a1 |
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 |