U+28C8 "⣈" Braille Pattern Dots-478 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⣈
U+28C8 "⣈" Braille Pattern Dots-478 is a specific braille cell within the Unicode Braille Patterns block, representing the tactile dot configuration with dots at positions 4, 7, and 8. This particular pattern corresponds to a unique arrangement often used in braille scripts to denote a letter, contraction, or punctuation mark depending on the specific braille standard and language. As part of the 8-dot braille system, which extends the traditional 6-dot system to support more characters including computer notation and specialized transcription, the "⣈" character serves as a visual or digital representation of a physical braille cell for text processing, screen readers, and accessibility systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+28C8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Braille Pattern Dots-478 |
| 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 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x28C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000028C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u28c8 |
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 |