Letter 9 of 26

The letter I in braille

I is dots 2 and 4.

Dots 2-4

Unicode ⠊ — U+280A

How to recognise it

Dots 2 and 4 sit diagonally, middle-left to top-right — the opposite diagonal to e. Nothing is raised in row 1 on the left, which is the fastest way to distinguish it.

How this cell is built

I is one of the ten base shapes of decade 1, built from dots 1, 2, 4 and 5 only. Every letter from k onwards is one of these ten with extra dots added.

Easily confused with

These letters differ from I by a single dot, which is where reading errors actually happen. Drill them against each other rather than in alphabetical order.

1-2-4 2-4-5 2-3-4

Practice words

Each word below starts with I, written in Grade 1 so every letter has its own cell.

ink

into