Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: At the beginning of a word , this same character stands for the word `` to '' although the character is written in Braille with no space following it ; this contraction was removed in the Unified English Braille Code .
Simplified: At the beginning of a word , this same character stands for the word `` to '' although the character is written in braille with no space following it .