Shortform
“deceiving” in braille
Written d-c-v-g — 9 letters cut to 4 letters of abbreviation, then written in 4 cells. That is 5 cells saved every time the word appears.
dots 1-4-5, then dots 1-4, then dots 1-2-3-6, then dots 1-2-4-5
Unicode ⠙⠉⠧⠛ — 9 letters in 4 cells
How to recognise it
d-c-v-g. It is the one word on this list where the reference contradicts itself: “rejoicingly” keeps its shortform and “deceivingly”, the same shape with the same ending, does not.
Two steps, not one
Abbreviated in letters first, then written in cells. “deceiving” loses 5 letters — e, e, i, i, n — to become dcvg. Every letter of the abbreviation is then written as itself, one cell each.
| Stage | What it is | Cells |
|---|---|---|
| Spelled out | deceiving | 9 cells |
| Abbreviated | dcvg | 4 letters |
| Written | 4 cells |
It carries no endings
Nothing derived from “deceiving” keeps this shortform: of the one English word that begins with it, the reference spells it out. These 4 cells write the bare word and nothing else. “good” is the opposite case — it carries seven different endings.
Words that only look like it
The -ly form is the exception, and this site follows the reference rather than the pattern. It begins with the same letters and is written out in full.
| Word | In braille | Cells |
|---|---|---|
| deceivingly | 9 cells |
Learn it with the -ceiving words
This is one of 4 shortforms built to the same shape — the -ceive shortform, then a g — and the set is far quicker learned together than one word at a time: conceiving (concvg), perceiving (percvg), receiving (rcvg).
What these 4 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 | |
| 1-2-4-5 | the letter g; the word “go” standing alone |
Check your own text
The translator writes “deceiving” with Grade 2 selected, and the contractions page has all seventy-three.
“deceiving” in braille as an image
The word as it is actually written: dcvg in 4 cells, not 9 letters.
