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Translingual

The 39th character of the braille script.

Etymology

More information

Invented by Louis Braille, braille cells were arranged in numerical order and assigned to the letters of the French alphabet. Most braille alphabets follow this assignment for the 26 letters of the basic Latin alphabet or, in non-Latin scripts, for the transliterations of those letters. In such alphabets, the first ten braille letters (the first decade: ⠁⠃⠉⠙⠑⠋⠛⠓⠊⠚) are assigned to the Latin letters A to J and to the digits 1 to 9 and 0. (Apart from '2', the even digits all have three dots: ⠃⠙⠋⠓⠚.)

The letters of the first decade are those cells with at least one dot in the top row and at least one in the left column, but none in the bottom row. The next decade repeat the pattern with the addition of a dot at the lower left, the third decade with two dots in the bottom row, and the fourth with a dot on the bottom right. The fifth decade is like the first, but shifted downward one row. The first decade is supplemented by the two characters with dots in the right column and none in the bottom row, and that supplement is propagated to the other decades using the generation rules above. Finally, there are four characters with no dots in the top two rows. Many languages that use braille letters beyond the 26 of the basic Latin alphabet follow an approximation of the English or French values for additional letters.

Letter

⠪

1. (English Braille) A letter rendering the print sequence ow
2. (Igbo, Yoruba Braille) ọ
3. (French Braille) œ
4. (Dutch Braille) oe (pronounced [u])
5. (German Braille, Swedish Braille, Finnish Braille, Estonian Braille, Icelandic Braille, Turkish Braille) ö
6. (Danish Braille) ø
7. (Hungarian Braille) ó
8. (Czech Braille) ó
9. (Polish Braille) ś
10. (Lithuanian Braille) į
11. (Latvian Braille) ī
12. (Romanian Braille) ţ
13. (Greek Braille) οι (oi/œ)
14. (Russian Braille) э (é) [dubious: it may be ⠣]
15. (Arabic Braille) أو‎ ’au
16. (Bharati braille) au
17. (Chinese Braille) The rime ai
18. (Chinese Two-Cell Braille) The onset m- or the rimes -é or -ó
19. (Taiwan Braille) The rime yao/-iao
20. (Cantonese Braille) The rime oek
21. (Vietnamese Braille) ơ
22. (Thai Braille) The vowel ึ short eu
23. (Korean Braille) ㅡ (eu)
24. (IPA Braille) œ

Number

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1. (French Braille) 9

Contraction

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1. (Chinese Two-Cell Braille) 没 méi

See also

Braille script navigation

• Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠪⟩:    ⡪   ⢪   ⣪

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Japanese

Syllable

⠪ (romaji ko)

1. The hiragana syllable こ (ko) or the katakana syllable コ (ko) in Japanese braille.