U+28CD "⣍" Braille Pattern Dots-13478 Unicode Character

U+28CD "⣍" Braille Pattern Dots-13478 is a tactile symbol from the standard 8-dot Braille block, representing a specific pattern where dots at positions 1, 3, 4, 7, and 8 are raised. This character is part of the extended Braille encoding system used primarily for digital text representation, enabling the accurate transcription of characters that require more than the traditional 6-dot format, such as those found in mathematics, music, or foreign languages. Its visual form as a grid of eight dots provides a compact way to encode tactile information, and it is displayed as a single glyph in Unicode-compliant text, though its meaning depends entirely on the Braille standard (such as English or computer Braille) in which it is used.

General Properties

Code Point	U+28CD
Version Added	3.0
Name	Braille Pattern Dots-13478
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 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x28CD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000028CD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u28cd

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