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Translingual
A character of the braille script, originally used as an asterisk / footnote marker. Some alphabets use it for a variant of i because it is a lowered version of the braille letter ⠊ i.
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
⠔
- (Igbo Braille) ị
- (Turkish Braille) ı
- (Vietnamese Braille) tone ◌́
- (IPA Braille) Modifies the following letter; usually equivalent to small capitals in print IPA
- Non-Latin transliteration
- (Arabic Braille) ـٍ (-in)
- (Bharati Braille) ई and ◌ी (ī)
- (Thai Braille) tone ◌่ (1)
- (Cantonese Braille) The rime at
Numeral
⠔
Symbol
⠔
- (Spanish Braille) (asterisk or emphasis)
- (Czech Braille) (asterisk)
- (music) perfect fifth.
See also
English
Letter
⠔ (in)
- Renders the print sequence in.
Contraction
⠔
Usage notes
- Because this cell does not have dots in the top row, it is not used for the word in where it would contact a punctuation mark, such as at the end of a sentence or in hyphenated words. However, a longer word ending in this letter ⠔ may still occur before a punctuation mark.
Derived terms
French
Symbol
⠔
- Marks the end of emphasis—italics, bold, underlining, etc.—within a word.
- (archaic) The asterisk *.
- (in the context of the Antoine number sign ⟨⠠⟩) The multiplication sign, ⟨×⟩.
Contraction
⠔
Usage notes
- The sequence si and in may appear anywhere in their word.
Japanese
Syllable
⠔ (romaji o)
Korean
Letter
⠔ • (-d)
- Syllable-final ㄷ (d).
Coordinate terms
- Syllable-initial ⠊.
Symbol
⠔ • (−)
- The minus sign −.
Mandarin
Letter
⠔
- (Mainland Braille) The rime a
- (Taiwan Braille) The rime wa/-ua
- (Two-Cell Braille) The onset r- or the erhua suffix -r
Symbol
⠔
- (Two-Cell Braille) (footnote mark)