# Braille pattern dots-246

6-dot braille cells :
The Braille pattern dots-246 ( ⠪ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with the middle left, and top and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the upper-middle left, and top and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+282a, and in Braille ASCII with an open bracket: [.
Character information :
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| Unicode name | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-246 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-246 |
| Encodings | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 10282 | U+282A |
| UTF-8 | 226 160 170 | E2 A0 AA |
| Numeric character reference | &#10282; | &#x282A; |
| Braille ASCII | 91 | 5B |

## Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-246 is used to represent close-mid to open-mid back rounded vowels, such as /o/, /o̞/, or /ɔ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, and is otherwise assigned as needed.

### Table of unified braille values

| French Braille | Œ, mathematical 9, im-, -ition, "son" |
| English Braille | Ow |
| German Braille | Ö |
| Bharati Braille | औ / ਔ / ઔ / ঔ / ଔ / ఔ / ಔ / ഔ / ஔ / ඖ / و ‎ |
| Icelandic Braille | Ö |
| IPA Braille | /œ/ |
| Russian Braille | Э |
| Slovak Braille | Ó |
| Arabic Braille | أو |
| Thai Braille | ึ eu |
| Luxembourgish Braille | 9 (nine) |

## Other braille

| Japanese Braille | ko / こ / コ |
| Korean Braille | eu / ㅡ |
| Mainland Chinese Braille | ai |
| Taiwanese Braille | yao, -iao / ㄧㄠ, ) (end parenthesis) |
| Two-Cell Chinese Braille | m- -é/-ó, 没 méi |
| Nemeth Braille | cancel (open) |
| Gardner Salinas Braille | 9 |
| Algerian Braille | ـً (tanwīn) ‎ |

## Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-246 are Braille patterns 2467, 2468, and 24678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.
Character information :
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| Unicode name | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2467 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2467 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2468 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2468 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-24678 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-24678 |
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 10346 | U+286A | 10410 | U+28AA | 10474 | U+28EA |
| UTF-8 | 226 161 170 | E2 A1 AA | 226 162 170 | E2 A2 AA | 226 163 170 | E2 A3 AA |
| Numeric character reference | &#10346; | &#x286A; | &#10410; | &#x28AA; | &#10474; | &#x28EA; |
| | dots 2467 | dots 2468 | dots 24678 |
| Gardner Salinas Braille | | √ (radical) | 〈 (open angle bracket) |

## Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 358, 1358, 3458, and 13458 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-246, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 0246, 2467, and 02467 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.
Character information :
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| Unicode name | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-358 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-358 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1358 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1358 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-3458 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-3458 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-13458 | BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-13458 |
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 10388 | U+2894 | 10389 | U+2895 | 10396 | U+289C | 10397 | U+289D |
| UTF-8 | 226 162 148 | E2 A2 94 | 226 162 149 | E2 A2 95 | 226 162 156 | E2 A2 9C | 226 162 157 | E2 A2 9D |
| Numeric character reference | &#10388; | &#x2894; | &#10389; | &#x2895; | &#10396; | &#x289C; | &#10397; | &#x289D; |

### Kantenji using braille patterns 358, 1358, 3458, or 13458

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-246 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.
* - 子

#### Variants and thematic compounds

* - selector 1 + こ/子 = 孑
* - selector 3 + こ/子 = 巽
* - selector 4 + こ/子 = 共
* - selector 5 + こ/子 = 呉
* - selector 6 + こ/子 = 公
* - こ/子 + selector 1 = 工
* - こ/子 + selector 3 = 耒
* - 数 + こ/子 = 甲
* - し/巿 + こ/子 = 黄

#### Compounds of 子

* - 龸 + こ/子 = 享
** - る/忄 + 龸 + こ/子 = 惇
** - き/木 + 龸 + こ/子 = 椁
** - え/訁 + 龸 + こ/子 = 諄
** - せ/食 + 龸 + こ/子 = 醇
* - 仁/亻 + こ/子 = 仔
* - う/宀/#3 + こ/子 = 字
* - ろ/十 + こ/子 = 存
** - て/扌 + ろ/十 + こ/子 = 拵
** - き/木 + ろ/十 + こ/子 = 栫
** - く/艹 + ろ/十 + こ/子 = 荐
* - と/戸 + こ/子 = 孝
** - れ/口 + と/戸 + こ/子 = 哮
* - の/禾 + こ/子 = 季
** - せ/食 + こ/子 = 酵
** - る/忄 + の/禾 + こ/子 = 悸
* - こ/子 + ふ/女 = 好
* - こ/子 + selector 1 + ゐ/幺 = 孕
* - こ/子 + 宿 + ろ/十 = 孛
* - こ/子 + ふ/女 + ゑ/訁 = 孥
* - と/戸 + 宿 + こ/子 = 孱
* - こ/子 + 宿 + ゐ/幺 = 孳
* - 龸 + 龸 + こ/子 = 學
* - こ/子 + 宿 + 氷/氵 = 敦
* - こ/子 + 龸 + selector 3 = 斈
* - 心 + 宿 + こ/子 = 李
* - に/氵 + 宿 + こ/子 = 潺

#### Compounds of 孑

* - こ/子 + こ/子 = 孤
** - 心 + こ/子 + こ/子 = 菰
* - さ/阝 + こ/子 = 郭
** - よ/广 + さ/阝 + こ/子 = 廓
** - き/木 + さ/阝 + こ/子 = 槨
* - こ/子 + を/貝 = 孔
** - れ/口 + こ/子 + を/貝 = 吼
* - こ/子 + ゐ/幺 = 孫
** - ひ/辶 + こ/子 + ゐ/幺 = 遜
* - こ/子 + 龸 + 氷/氵 = 孜
* - こ/子 + selector 5 + ゐ/幺 = 孩
* - こ/子 + 宿 + お/頁 = 孰
* - こ/子 + ち/竹 + の/禾 = 孺

#### Compounds of 巽

* - ひ/辶 + こ/子 = 選
* - て/扌 + 宿 + こ/子 = 撰
* - せ/食 + 宿 + こ/子 = 饌

#### Compounds of 共

* - な/亻 + こ/子 = 供
* - た/⽥ + こ/子 = 異
** - 日 + こ/子 = 暴
*** - 日 + 日 + こ/子 = 曝
*** - に/氵 + 日 + こ/子 = 瀑
*** - 火 + こ/子 = 爆
*** - む/車 + こ/子 = 翼
* - ⺼ + こ/子 = 臀
* - も/門 + こ/子 = 閧
** - も/門 + も/門 + こ/子 = 鬨
* - こ/子 + る/忄 = 恭
* - こ/子 + の/禾 = 殿
** - に/氵 + こ/子 + の/禾 = 澱
** - や/疒 + こ/子 + の/禾 = 癜
* - れ/口 + selector 4 + こ/子 = 哄
* - て/扌 + selector 4 + こ/子 = 拱
* - に/氵 + selector 4 + こ/子 = 洪
* - む/車 + selector 4 + こ/子 = 蛬

#### Compounds of 呉

* - ふ/女 + こ/子 = 娯
* - く/艹 + selector 5 + こ/子 = 茣
* - む/車 + selector 5 + こ/子 = 蜈
* - す/発 + こ/子 = 虞
* - え/訁 + こ/子 = 誤
* - こ/子 + そ/馬 + 比 = 麌

#### Compounds of 公

* - 心 + こ/子 = 松
** - に/氵 + 心 + こ/子 = 淞
** - 心 + 心 + こ/子 = 菘
** - と/戸 + 心 + こ/子 = 鬆
* - 宿 + こ/子 = 窓
* - い/糹/#2 + こ/子 = 総
** - い/糹/#2 + い/糹/#2 + こ/子 = 總
* - み/耳 + こ/子 = 聡
** - み/耳 + み/耳 + こ/子 = 聰
* - ゑ/訁 + こ/子 = 訟
* - こ/子 + む/車 = 翁
** - く/艹 + こ/子 + む/車 = 蓊
** - こ/子 + 宿 + せ/食 = 鶲
* - 心 + selector 6 + こ/子 = 枩
* - か/金 + selector 6 + こ/子 = 瓮
* - ふ/女 + selector 6 + こ/子 = 舩
* - む/車 + selector 6 + こ/子 = 蚣
* - お/頁 + selector 6 + こ/子 = 頌

#### Compounds of 工

* - そ/馬 + こ/子 = 差
** - れ/口 + そ/馬 + こ/子 = 嗟
** - や/疒 + そ/馬 + こ/子 = 嵯
** - て/扌 + そ/馬 + こ/子 = 搓
** - き/木 + そ/馬 + こ/子 = 槎
** - へ/⺩ + そ/馬 + こ/子 = 瑳
** - ま/石 + そ/馬 + こ/子 = 磋
** - い/糹/#2 + そ/馬 + こ/子 = 縒
** - み/耳 + そ/馬 + こ/子 = 蹉
* - 氷/氵 + こ/子 = 江
* - ゐ/幺 + こ/子 = 紅
* - を/貝 + こ/子 = 貢
** - き/木 + を/貝 + こ/子 = 槓
** - 火 + を/貝 + こ/子 = 熕
* - こ/子 + ぬ/力 = 功
* - こ/子 + も/門 = 巧
* - こ/子 + 氷/氵 = 攻
* - こ/子 + う/宀/#3 = 虹
* - こ/子 + お/頁 = 項
* - て/扌 + こ/子 + selector 1 = 扛
* - き/木 + こ/子 + selector 1 = 杢
* - に/氵 + こ/子 + selector 1 = 汞
* - ま/石 + こ/子 + selector 1 = 矼
* - ん/止 + こ/子 + selector 1 = 缸
* - ⺼ + こ/子 + selector 1 = 肛
* - え/訁 + こ/子 + selector 1 = 訌
* - き/木 + 宿 + こ/子 = 杠

#### Compounds of 耒

* - こ/子 + い/糹/#2 = 耕
* - こ/子 + え/訁 = 耘
* - こ/子 + 宿 + ひ/辶 = 耙
* - こ/子 + 宿 + ら/月 = 耜
* - こ/子 + ぬ/力 + そ/馬 = 耡
* - こ/子 + し/巿 + ろ/十 = 耨

#### Compounds of 甲

* - や/疒 + こ/子 = 岬
* - こ/子 + て/扌 = 押
* - こ/子 + せ/食 = 鴨
* - も/門 + 数 + こ/子 = 匣
* - れ/口 + 数 + こ/子 = 呷
* - け/犬 + 数 + こ/子 = 狎
* - ⺼ + 数 + こ/子 = 胛
* - も/門 + 宿 + こ/子 = 閘

#### Compounds of 黄

* - き/木 + こ/子 = 横
* - よ/广 + こ/子 = 広
** - て/扌 + こ/子 = 拡
** - ま/石 + こ/子 = 砿
** - か/金 + こ/子 = 鉱
** - よ/广 + よ/广 + こ/子 = 廣
*** - つ/土 + よ/广 + こ/子 = 壙
*** - 日 + よ/广 + こ/子 = 曠
*** - ま/石 + よ/广 + こ/子 = 礦
** - い/糹/#2 + よ/广 + こ/子 = 絋
* - ち/竹 + し/巿 + こ/子 = 簧
* - 龸 + し/巿 + こ/子 = 黌
* - き/木 + た/⽥ + こ/子 = 冀
* - て/扌 + て/扌 + こ/子 = 擴
* - の/禾 + た/⽥ + こ/子 = 糞
* - か/金 + か/金 + こ/子 = 鑛

#### Other compounds

* - つ/土 + こ/子 = 去
** - る/忄 + こ/子 = 怯
** - に/氵 + こ/子 = 法
** - ぬ/力 + つ/土 + こ/子 = 劫
** - に/氵 + つ/土 + こ/子 = 溘
** - も/門 + つ/土 + こ/子 = 闔
* - こ/子 + く/艹 = 告
** - こ/子 + に/氵 = 浩
** - 日 + こ/子 + く/艹 = 晧
** - き/木 + こ/子 + く/艹 = 梏
** - え/訁 + こ/子 + く/艹 = 誥
** - 火 + こ/子 + く/艹 = 靠
* - こ/子 + 宿 = 児
** - こ/子 + こ/子 + 宿 = 兒
*** - め/目 + こ/子 = 睨
*** - な/亻 + こ/子 + 宿 = 倪
*** - そ/馬 + こ/子 + 宿 = 貎
*** - ち/竹 + こ/子 + 宿 = 霓
*** - も/門 + こ/子 + 宿 = 鬩
*** - せ/食 + こ/子 + 宿 = 鯢
*** - こ/子 + 宿 + そ/馬 = 麑
* - ゆ/彳 + こ/子 = 弧
* - け/犬 + こ/子 = 狐
* - こ/子 + 日 = 暦
* - こ/子 + ん/止 = 歴
** - き/木 + こ/子 + ん/止 = 櫪
** - に/氵 + こ/子 + ん/止 = 瀝
** - や/疒 + こ/子 + ん/止 = 癧
** - む/車 + こ/子 + ん/止 = 轣
** - ち/竹 + こ/子 + ん/止 = 靂
* - 囗 + こ/子 = 向
** - ひ/辶 + 囗 + こ/子 = 迥
** - せ/食 + 囗 + こ/子 = 餉
* - れ/口 + こ/子 = 喉
* - ち/竹 + こ/子 = 筍
* - こ/子 + と/戸 = 事
** - こ/子 + こ/子 + と/戸 = 亊
* - こ/子 + 心 = 怱
* - な/亻 + 宿 + こ/子 = 偬
* - る/忄 + 宿 + こ/子 = 愡
* - ぬ/力 + 宿 + こ/子 = 刧
* - へ/⺩ + に/氵 + こ/子 = 琺
* - 日 + 宿 + こ/子 = 皓
* - こ/子 + う/宀/#3 + り/分 = 窖
* - 宿 + 宿 + こ/子 = 窗
* - ゐ/幺 + 宿 + こ/子 = 絳
* - そ/馬 + 宿 + こ/子 = 羔
* - 囗 + 宿 + こ/子 = 觚