U+28AB "⢫" Braille Pattern Dots-12468 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+28AB "⢫" Braille Pattern Dots-12468 is a specific glyph within the Unicode Braille Patterns block, representing a tactile dot arrangement used in Braille writing systems. This character encodes the presence of raised dots at positions 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8 in a standard eight-dot Braille cell, which is an extension of the traditional six-dot system. It is primarily utilized in computer applications and digital text to represent Braille characters for communication, education, or accessibility purposes, allowing users to display or process non-linguistic dot patterns or specialized symbolic information.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+28AB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Braille Pattern Dots-12468 |
| 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x28AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000028AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u28ab |
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 |