# ⠯

| ⠯ | U+282F, &#10287; BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12346 |
| ← ⠮ [U+282E] | Braille Patterns | ⠰ → [U+2830] |

## Translingual

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

### 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

* (Polish Braille) ż
* (Czech Braille, Icelandic Braille) ý
* (Hausa Braille) ƴ
* (Hungarian Braille) q
* (Albanian Braille) q
* (IPA Braille) Marks click letters
    ⠯⠏ ʘ, ⠯⠹ ǀ, ⠯⠞ ǃ, ⠯⠱ ǂ, ⠯⠇ ǁ
       Non-Latin transliteration
* (International Greek Braille) χ (kh) [Greek Braille uses ⠓ for χ]
* (Greek Braille) ψ (ps)
* (Bulgarian Braille) ѝ
* (Russian Braille) й (ĭ)
* (Arabic Braille) ص (ṣ)
* (Ethiopic Braille) ፅ (ṣ́ᵊ)
* (Bharati Braille) ष (ṣa)
* (Tibetan Braille) ཕ (pha)
* (Thai Braille) ป (bp)
* (Cantonese Braille) The onset p (pʻ) and rime ip

### Symbol

* (German Braille, Gardner-Salinas proposal) &
* (music) A whole E note.

### See also

* Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠯⟩: ⡯ ⢯ ⣯

## English
### Letter

⠯ (and)
* Renders the print sequence and, including the independent word and.

#### Usage notes

* This is used for any sequence of the letters and, for example in hand and standard, as long as it does not span a compound word like it would in Sandiegan.
When one word spelled entirely as one of the letter sequences a, and, for, of, the, with follows another, no space is left between them: and the, for a, with the, of a are all fused together.

#### Derivations
## French
### Letter

⠯ (ç)
* The letter ç.

### Contraction

* The independent word pour.
* The letter sequence our.

#### Usage notes

* The sequence may appear anywhere in its word.

## Japanese
### Syllable

⠯ (romaji he)
* The hiragana syllable へ (he) or the katakana syllable ヘ (he) in Japanese braille.

## Korean
### Contraction

⠯ • (ul)
* The rime or syllable 울 (ul).

## Mandarin
### Letter

* (Mainland Braille) The rime yuan/-üan
* (Taiwan Braille) The rime weng/-ong
* (Two-Cell Braille) The onset nu- or the rime -ǎn
* Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠯⟩: ⡯ ⢯ ⣯