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Translingual
A character of the braille script, standardized internationally as the letter g and the digit 7.
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
⠛
- Non-Latin transliteration
- (Greek Braille) γ (g)
- (Yugoslav Braille) g ~ г
- (Russian Braille) г (g)
- (Hebrew Braille) ג (g)
- (Persian Braille) گ (g)
- (Ethiopic Braille) ግ (gᵊ)
- (Bharati Braille) ग (ga)
- (Tibetan Braille) ག (ga)
- (Burmese Braille) ဂ (ga)
- (Thai Braille) ก (g)
- (Cantonese Braille) The onset ng and rimes ng and ang
Number
⠛
Symbol
⠛ (♪)
- (music) An eighth F note.
See also
English
Letter
⠛ (g)
- Renders the print letter g.
Numeral
⠛ (7)
Contraction
⠛
Usage notes
- This is used for the independent word go and where the word go is set off with an apostrophe or hyphen. It is not used for the simple letter sequence g-o, not even in other inflections or compounds of the word go.
French
Letter
⠛ (g)
- The letter g.
Contraction
⠛
- The independent word qui.
Japanese
Syllable
⠛ (romaji re)
Korean
Letter
⠛ • (ng-)
- (obsolete) Syllable-intial ㆁ.
Usage notes
The modern letter ㅇ ieung, which is historically a conflation of the initial null consonant ㅇ and the final nasal consonant ㆁ ng, is not written at the beginning of a syllable, but only at the end, following pronunciation.
Coordinate terms
- Syllable-final ⠶.
Contraction
⠛ • (un)
- The rime or syllable 운 (un).
Luxembourgish
Letter
⠛ (g) (upper case ⡛)
- The lower-case letter g.
See also
- (Braille-script letters) ⡁ ⠁, ⡃ ⠃, ⡉ ⠉, ⡙ ⠙, ⡑ ⠑, ⡋ ⠋, ⡛ ⠛, ⡓ ⠓, ⡊ ⠊, ⡚ ⠚, ⡅ ⠅, ⡇ ⠇, ⡍ ⠍, ⡝ ⠝, ⡕ ⠕, ⡏ ⠏, ⡟ ⠟, ⡗ ⠗, ⡎ ⠎, ⡞ ⠞, ⡥ ⠥, ⡧ ⠧, ⡺ ⠺, ⡭ ⠭, ⡽ ⠽, ⡵ ⠵, ⣿ ⢿, ⣜ ⢜, ⣫ ⢫
Mandarin
Letter
⠛
- (Mainland Braille) The onset g or j, depending on the rime
- (Taiwan Braille) The onset r
- (Two-Cell Braille) The onset s- or the rime -ài