# ⠷

| ⠷ | U+2837, &#10295; BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12356 |
| ← ⠶ [U+2836] | Braille Patterns | ⠸ → [U+2838] |

## Translingual

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

### 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, Navajo Braille) á
* (Hungarian Braille) ü
* (Czech Braille) w (⠺ is used for ř)
* (Slovak Braille) ŕ
* (Albanian Braille) ll
* (IPA Braille) ʊ
       Non-Latin transliteration
* (International Greek Braille) ὰ (à) [as in French]
* (Russian Braille) ъ (ʺ )
* (Arabic Braille) ayin, ع (ʿ )
* (Ethiopic Braille) እ (ʾə)
* (Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada Braille) ழ/ഴ/ೞ (ḻa)
* (Urdu Braille) ع (ʿa)
* (Burmese Braille) ည (nya)
* (Thai Braille) The vowel เ◌ีย (ia)
* (Cantonese Braille) The rime yt (yut)

### Symbol

* (music) A whole G note.

### See also

* Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠷⟩: ⡷ ⢷ ⣷

## English
### Letter

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

#### Usage notes

* This is used for any sequence of the letters of, for example in roof, as long as it does not span a compound word like it would in twofold.
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.

### Punctuation mark

* ( (variant opening parenthesis)

#### Synonyms
## French
### Letter

⠷ (à)
* The letter à, including the independent word à.

### Contraction

⠷ (ch)
* The letter sequence ch.

#### Usage notes

* The sequence ch may appear anywhere in its word.

## Japanese
### Syllable

⠷ (romaji mi)
* The hiragana syllable み (mi) or the katakana syllable ミ (mi) in Japanese braille.

## Korean
### Contraction

⠷ • (on)
* The rime or syllable 온 (on).

## Luxembourgish
### Punctuation mark

* The opening brace {.

## Mandarin
### Letter

* (Mainland Braille, Taiwan Braille) The rime ou
* (Two-Cell Braille) The onset lü- or the rime -ǎo
* Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠷⟩: ⡷ ⢷ ⣷