# ⠮

| ⠮ | U+282E, &#10286; BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-2346 |
| ← ⠭ [U+282D] | Braille Patterns | ⠯ → [U+282F] |

## Translingual

A character of the braille script, originally used to transcribe the French letter è. Some alphabets use it for a variant of z because it is a reflection of the braille letter ⠵ z.

### 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

* (Spanish Braille, Icelandic Braille, Navajo Braille) é
* (German Braille) ß
* (Czech Braille, Estonian Braille) ž
* (Polish Braille) ź
* (Vietnamese Braille, from 2009) đ
    [before 2009, đ was ⠙ and d was ⠵, following their pronunciation]
* (Lithuanian Braille, Latvian Braille) š
* (Esperanto Braille) ŝ
* (Albanian Braille) xh
* (IPA Braille) ʒ
       Non-Latin transliteration
* (International Greek Braille)
    1a. sampi, ϡ
    1b. ὴ (ề) [as in French]
* (Yugoslav Braille) ž ~ ж
* (Russian Braille) ы (y)
* (Hebrew Braille) צ ץ (ts)
* (Arabic Braille) ذ (dh)
* (Ethiopic Braille) ጽ (ṣᵊ)
* (Bharati Braille) ध (dha)
* (Tibetan Braille) ས (sa)
* (Burmese Braille) ဈ (jha)
* (Thai Braille) ซ (s)
* (Cantonese Braille) The rime un

### Symbol

* (music) A whole A note.
* (Gardner–Salinas proposal) the percent sign, ⟨%⟩

#### References

* ↑ or, according to one source, stigma, ϛ: see ⠉.

### See also

* Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠮⟩: ⡮ ⢮ ⣮

## English
### Letter

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

#### Usage notes

* This is used for any sequence of the letters the, for example in then and breathe, as long as it does not span a compound word like it would in southeast or butthead.
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.

## French
### Letter

⠮ (è)
* The letter è.

### Contraction

* The independent word sans.
* The letter sequence -ss-.

#### Usage notes

* The sequence ss must appear between vowel letters.

## Japanese
### Syllable

⠮ (romaji ho)
* The hiragana syllable ほ (ho) or the katakana syllable ホ (ho) in Japanese braille.

## Korean
### Contraction

⠮ • (eul)
* The rime or syllable 을 (eul).

## Mandarin
### Letter

* (Mainland Braille) The rime ei
* (Taiwan Braille) The rime e
* (Two-Cell Braille) The onset tu- or the rimes -ě or -ǒ

### Contraction

* (Two-Cell Braille) 也 (yě)
* Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠮⟩: ⡮ ⢮ ⣮