Braille kanji

Prinsip

Hanya kanji yang menggunakan titik atas 0 dan 7. Sel yang hanya menempati titik 1-6 harus dibaca sebagai kana, atau kurang umum sebagai radikal tengah dari kanji tiga sel.
Bacaan Kana digunakan untuk memperoleh elemen kanji umum yang homofon. Misalnya, kana ⢆ き ki digunakan untuk elemen berdasarkan kanji 木, yang memiliki ki sebagai salah satu pengucapan dasarnya. Dua titik atas kemudian digunakan untuk menunjukkan apakah ini adalah murni karakter 木 atau karakter radikal. Untuk karakter murni, kedua titik atas ditambahkan sehingga menjadi ⢏ 木 ki. Untuk karakter radikal, satu titik atas digunakan: Titik atas kiri saja menunjukkan bagian radikal pertama (kiri, atas, atau luar) dari kanji, seperti pada ⢇⢮ 村, dan titik kanan atas saja menandakan bagian radikal akhir (kanan, bawah, atau dalam) kanji, seperti pada ⢇⢎ 林. Untuk kanji yang radikalnya diulang lebih dari satu kali, sufiks yang bersesuaian berasal dari angka braille ditambah titik kanan atas menunjukkan berapa kali suatu radikal ditulis, seperti pada ⢇⠚ = 森.
That is, the kana ⢆ き ki is the basis for the kanji ⢏ 木 ki, as well as the two components of ⢇⢎ 林 hayashi, and combined with the digit ⠒ ３ it forms ⢇⠚ 森 mori.
Kantenji are frequently abbreviated. For example, the kana ⠒ う u is used for the 'roof' radical, 宀, which is conventionally pronounced u. Thus, combined with the kanji ⢝ 子 ko (from the kana ⢔ こ ko), it forms the compound character ⠓⢜ 字 ji (as in 漢字 kanji). However, in print the 'roof' radical is not normally used on its own, while in kantenji it is used as an abbreviation for the most common kanji with the roof radical, ⠛ 家 ie "house".
A more extreme abbreviation is 恋 koi "love". In print this is (historically) 糸–言–糸 on the top plus 心 on the bottom, but in kantenji it is abbreviated to 言 + 心, for ⠗⢬ 恋 koi.
Karena hanya ada 63 pola enam titik yang bisa dijadikan dasar kantenji, sementara ada lebih banyak radikal yang menyusun kanji (total ada 214 radikal), masing-masing pola kantenji berhubungan dengan beberapa komponen dalam cetakan. there are only 63 six-dot patterns that kantenji can be based on, while there are significantly more elements from which kanji are built in print (for instance, the 214 radicals), each of the kantenji patterns corresponds to several components in print. Most are visually or thematically linked. For example, the kana  そ so is the arbitrary basis for the kanji ⢽ 馬 uma "horse". From there, three kanji for farm animals are derived by adding a "selector" (a pattern with a single lower dot): ⢵⠊ (馬 + selector 1) 牛 ushi "cattle", ⢵⠌ (馬 + selector 2) 羊 hitsuji "sheep", and ⢵⡈ (馬+selector 3) 豚 buta "pig". The kanji 曽 sō, on the other hand, is based on the same braille pattern, despite having nothing to do with the horse radical or its meaning, because it is the historical basis of the kana そ so. Thus ⠑⢼ (selector 4 + 馬) is 曽 sō. The selectors are generally only used for individual kanji. When 馬, 牛, 羊, 豚, or 曽 used as components of compound kanji in print, all are most commonly written as ⢵ or ⢼ in braille.
The order of the cells is sometimes reversed to distinguish kanji that would otherwise be written the same in braille. For example, 料 is written ⡵⡜ (斗 + 私) to distinguish it from ⡕⡼ 科 (私 + 斗). Tricks such as reordering and abbreviation help utilize the 4,000 two-cell combinations. However, for rarer kanji, three cells are required. The middle cell may be a selector, as in ⡇⠐⡌ 汲 (水 + selector 5 + 系), or a kanji element, as in ⣗⠢⡪ 瑠 (玉 + 月 + 田).