# ⠫

| ⠫ | U+282B, &#10283; BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1246 |
| ← ⠪ [U+282A] | Braille Patterns | ⠬ → [U+282C] |

## Translingual

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

### 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

* (Icelandic Braille) þ
* (Hungarian Braille) ny
* (Czech Braille) ň
* (Albanian Braille) nj
* (IPA Braille) ŋ
       Non-Latin transliteration
* (International Greek Braille) έ (é)
* (Yugoslav Braille) nj ~ њ
* (Russian Braille) я (ya)
* (Hebrew Braille) ע (ayin)
* (Arabic Braille) ض (ḍ)
* (Bharati Braille) ड (ḍa)
* (Tibetan Braille) འ (a)
* (Burmese Braille) ဏ (ṇa)
* (Thai Braille) ฟ (f)
* (Cantonese Braille) The rime an

### Symbol

* (music) A quarter E note.

### See also

* Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠫⟩: ⡫ ⢫ ⣫

## English
### Letter

⠫ (ed)
* Renders the print sequence ed, including the past-tense suffix -ed.

#### Usage notes

* This is used for any sequence of the letters ed within a word that does not break a vowel digraph (as it would e.g. in Oedipus). It is not normally used across morphemes – e.g. not in freedom – unless the e and d form a single syllable, as in freed.

### Prefix

⠫ (ar)
* The shape indicator, used i.a. for various print arrows:

### References

* ↑ BANA Literary Technical Committee, General Purpose Symbols

## French
### Letter

⠫ (ë)
* The letter ë

### Contraction

* The independent word plus.
* The letter sequence pl [+V].

#### Usage notes

* The sequence pl may appear anywhere in its word, as long as it is followed by a vowel.

### Numeral

⠫ (6)
* (in the context of the Antoine number sign ⠠) 6

## Japanese
### Syllable

⠫ (romaji ke)
* The hiragana syllable け (ke) or the katakana syllable ケ (ke) in Japanese braille.

## Korean
### Contraction

⠫ • (ga)
* The syllable or syllable onset 가 (ga).

## Luxembourgish
### Numeral

⠫ (6)
* The digit 6.

#### Usage notes

    In the 6-dot braille used to teach children, this is identical to the letter ⢫ ë.

### See also

    Luxembourgish Braille digits: ⠡ 1, ⠣ 2, ⠩ 3, ⠹ 4, ⠱ 5, ⠫ 6, ⠻ 7, ⠳ 8, ⠪ 9, ⠼ 0

## Mandarin
### Letter

* (Mainland Braille) The rime ya/-ia
* (Taiwan Braille) The rime wei/-ui
* (Two-Cell Braille) The onset shu- or the rime -án
* Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠫⟩: ⡫ ⢫ ⣫