U+28C4 "⣄" Braille Pattern Dots-378 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⣄
U+28C4 "⣄" Braille Pattern Dots-378 is a specific cell within the Unicode Braille Patterns block, representing a tactile configuration where dots 3, 7, and 8 are raised. This character is used in the six and eight dot Braille systems, where each dot number refers to a physical position in the standard 2 by 4 Braille grid, and its primary function is to serve as a typographic symbol in digital text, often encoding a particular letter, contraction, or punctuation mark in various Braille language standards or for use in specialized transcription and accessibility contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+28C4 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Braille Pattern Dots-378 |
| 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 0xA3 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x28C4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000028C4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u28c4 |
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 |