Shortform
“deceive” in braille
Written d-c-v — 7 letters cut to 3 letters of abbreviation, then written in 3 cells. That is 4 cells saved every time the word appears.
dots 1-4-5, then dots 1-4, then dots 1-2-3-6
Unicode ⠙⠉⠧ — 7 letters in 3 cells
How to recognise it
d-c-v — the same c-v ending as conceive, perceive and receive, with a d in front. The four differ by their first cell alone.
Two steps, not one
Abbreviated in letters first, then written in cells. “deceive” loses 4 letters — e, e, i, e — to become dcv. Every letter of the abbreviation is then written as itself, one cell each.
| Stage | What it is | Cells |
|---|---|---|
| Spelled out | deceive | 7 cells |
| Abbreviated | dcv | 3 letters |
| Written | 3 cells |
Endings it keeps
Of the 4 English words that begin with these letters, the reference keeps the shortform in every one. The endings that survive are -s, -d, -r. Everything else is spelled out.
| Word | In braille | Ending | Cells |
|---|---|---|---|
| deceives | -s | 4 cells | |
| deceived | -d | 4 cells | |
| deceiver | -r | 4 cells |
Learn it with the -ceive words
This is one of 4 shortforms built to the same shape — an opening cell, then c-v — and the set is far quicker learned together than one word at a time: conceive (concv), perceive (percv), receive (rcv).
What these 3 cells mean elsewhere
Every cell here has other jobs, which is where misreadings come from:
| Cell | Dots | What it is elsewhere |
|---|---|---|
| 1-4-5 | the letter d; the word “do” standing alone | |
| 1-4 | the letter c; the word “can” standing alone | |
| 1-2-3-6 | the letter v; the word “very” standing alone |
Check your own text
The translator writes “deceive” with Grade 2 selected, and the contractions page has all seventy-three.
“deceive” in braille as an image
The word as it is actually written: dcv in 3 cells, not 7 letters.
