U+2820 "⠠" Braille Pattern Dots-6 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+2820 "⠠" Braille Pattern Dots-6 is a Braille cell that contains only the dot in position six of the standard six dot Braille grid, making it one of the single dot patterns in the Braille Patterns block. In the Unified English Braille system, this character is commonly used as a capitalization indicator, meaning it is placed before a word or abbreviation to signal that the following letters should be read as capitals. It also serves various functions in different Braille codes, such as an emphasis marker or a prefix for specific contractions, and in the context of digital representation it provides a way to encode this fundamental tactile symbol in plain text.
General Properties
Code Point
U+2820
Name
Braille Pattern Dots-6
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
⠠
HTML Hex Encoding
⠠
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0xA0 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2820
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002820
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2820
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Braille