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Translingual
A character of the braille script, originally used to transcribe the French letter ï. A few alphabets use it for a variant of q because it is a reflection of the braille letter ⠟ q.
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
⠻
- (Icelandic Braille) ú
- (Hungarian Braille) ő
- (Latvian Braille) ğ
- (Esperanto Braille) ĝ
- (Albanian Braille) gj
- (Spanish Braille) ñ
- (IPA Braille) ð
- Non-Latin transliteration
- (International Greek Braille) ί (í)
- (Greek Braille) υι (ui)
- (Yugoslav Braille) dž ~ џ
- (Bharati Braille) ड़ (ṛa) [Indic languages]; ఱ/ற etc. (ṟa) [Dravidian languages]
- (Burmese Braille) ဌ (ṭha)
- (Thai Braille) ง (ng)
- (Cantonese Braille) The onset kw (kw') and rime ok
Punctuation mark
⠻
- (Czech Braille) /
Symbol
⠻ (♩)
- (music) A quarter F note.
See also
English
Letter
⠻ (er)
- Renders the print sequence er, included the suffix -er.
- 2007, High School Musical 2, 00:50:38:
- [Both the Latin script and the Braille text are written on a plaque.]
MEN'S LOCKER ROOM
Members's Only
⠍⠢⠄⠎⠀⠇⠕⠉⠅⠻⠀⠗⠕⠕⠍ (men's locker room)
Usage notes
- This is used for any sequence of the letters er within a word that does not break a vowel (as it would e.g. in aerial). It is not normally used across morphemes, for example not in rerun, but this rule is variously applied.
French
Letter
⠻ (ï)
- The letter ï
Contraction
⠻
- The independent word grand.
- The letter sequence gr [+V].
Usage notes
- The sequence gr may appear anywhere in its word, as long as it is followed by a vowel.
Numeral
⠻ (7)
- (in the context of the Antoine number sign ⠠) 7
Japanese
Syllable
⠻ (romaji se)
Korean
Contraction
⠻ • (yeong)
Luxembourgish
Numeral
⠻ (7)
- The digit 7.
See also
Mandarin
Letter
⠻
- (Mainland Braille, Taiwan Braille) The rime wan/-uan
- (Two-Cell Braille) The onset su- or the rime -ái
Contraction
⠻
- (Two-Cell Braille) hái