# ⠜

| ⠜ | U+281C, &#10268; BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-345 |
| ← ⠛ [U+281B] | Braille Patterns | ⠝ → [U+281D] |

## Translingual

A character of the braille script, originally used to transcribe the letter æ.

### Etymology

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

* (German Braille, Swedish Braille, Finnish Braille, Estonian Braille) ä
* (Danish Braille, Icelandic Braille) æ
* (Vietnamese Braille) ă
* (Czech Braille) é
* (Lithuanian Braille) ė
* (Hungarian Braille) A letter rendering the print digraph zs
* (Latvian Braille) z
* (IPA Braille) ɛ

#### Non-Latin transliteration

* (International Greek Braille) ά (á)
* (Greek Braille) η (ê) [see also ⠱ ]
* (Yugoslav Braille) ѓ (gj) [Macedonian]
* (Ukrainian Braille) є (ie)
* (Arabic Braille) آ (ʾā)
* (Bharati Braille) आ and ◌ा (ā)
* (Tibetan Braille) ཉ (nya)
* (Thai Braille) The vowel ◌ั (medial short a)
* (Cantonese Braille) The rime aam

### Punctuation mark

* (Spanish Braille) ⟨)⟩

### See also

* Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠜⟩: ⡜ ⢜ ⣜

## English
### Letter

⠜ (ar)
* Renders the print sequence ar.

#### Usage notes

* This is used for any sequence of the letters ar within a word, as in around.

### Punctuation mark

* the pipe |

## French
### Symbol

⠜ (ä)
* ä or æ (in foreign words)

### Symbol

* The at sign, @.
* Used to mark the end of a verse.
* (archaic, in the context of the number sign ⠼) the square-root sign √.

### Contraction

* The independent word les.
* The letter sequence gl [+V].
* The letter sequence em [+C].

#### Usage notes

* The sequences gl and em may appear anywhere in their word, as long as they are followed by a vowel or consonant, respectively.

## Japanese
### Syllable

⠜ (romaji yo)
* The hiragana syllable よ (yo) or the katakana syllable ヨ (yo) in Japanese braille.

## Korean
### Etymology

* A reversed ⠣ (a).

### Letter

⠜ • (ya)
* The vowel ㅑ (ya)

#### Derived terms

* ⠜⠗ (yae)

## Mandarin
### Letter

* (Mainland Braille) The rime yao/-iao
* (Taiwan Braille) The rime a
* (Two-Cell Braille) The onset di- or the rime -ēi
* Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠜⟩: ⡜ ⢜ ⣜