Braille pattern dots-26

The Braille pattern dots-26 ( ⠢ ) is a 6-dot braille cell with the middle left and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the upper-middle left and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2822, and in Braille ASCII with the number 5.

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-26 is used to represent an unrounded open-mid to close-mid front vowel , such as /e/, /e̞/, or /ɛ/ when multiple letters correspond to these values, a question mark, or is otherwise assigned as needed.

Related to Braille pattern dots-26 are Braille patterns 267, 268, and 2678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 38, 138, 348, and 1348 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-26, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 026, 267, and 0267 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-26 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

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