Shortform
“perceive” in braille
Written p-e-r-c-v — 8 letters cut to 5 letters of abbreviation, then written in 4 cells. That is 4 cells saved every time the word appears.
dots 1-2-3-4, then dots 1-2-4-5-6, then dots 1-4, then dots 1-2-3-6
Unicode ⠏⠻⠉⠧ — 8 letters in 4 cells
How to recognise it
p-er-c-v, four cells, the longest of the four -ceive words because the er takes a cell the others do not need.
Two steps, not one
Abbreviated in letters first, then written in cells. “perceive” loses 3 letters — e, i, e — to become percv. Then it contracts again: er is a single cell, which is how 5 letters of abbreviation fit into 4 cells.
| Stage | What it is | Cells |
|---|---|---|
| Spelled out | perceive | 8 cells |
| Abbreviated | percv | 5 letters |
| Written | 4 cells |
Endings it keeps
Of the 6 English words that begin with these letters, the reference keeps the shortform in 4 of them. The endings that survive are -s, -d, -r. Everything else is spelled out.
| Word | In braille | Ending | Cells |
|---|---|---|---|
| perceives | -s | 5 cells | |
| perceived | -d | 5 cells | |
| perceiver | -r | 5 cells |
Words that only look like it
Two longer forms exist and the reference spells both out. Each begins with the same letters and is written out in full.
| Word | In braille | Cells |
|---|---|---|
| perceivedly | 9 cells | |
| perceivedness | 9 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), deceive (dcv), receive (rcv).
What these 4 cells mean elsewhere
Every cell here has other jobs, which is where misreadings come from:
| Cell | Dots | What it is elsewhere |
|---|---|---|
| 1-2-3-4 | the letter p; the word “people” standing alone | |
| 1-2-4-5-6 | the letters er inside a word | |
| 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 “perceive” with Grade 2 selected, and the contractions page has all seventy-three.
“perceive” in braille as an image
The word as it is actually written: percv in 4 cells, not 8 letters.
