U+28D8 "⣘" Braille Pattern Dots-4578 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⣘
U+28D8 "⣘" Braille Pattern Dots-4578 is a specific braille representation consisting of raised dots in positions 4, 5, 7, and 8 within the standard six or eight dot braille cell, where dots are numbered from top to bottom and left to right. This character is part of the Unicode Braille Patterns block, which encodes all 256 possible dot combinations for eight-dot braille, allowing it to be used in digital text for tactile reading systems, music notation, or specialized encoding schemes. While it does not have a fixed linguistic meaning by itself, its value depends on the context of a particular braille code, such as a contraction, letter, or symbol in languages like English or Japanese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+28D8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Braille Pattern Dots-4578 |
| 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 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x28D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000028D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u28d8 |
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 |