Shortform
“perceiving” in braille
Written p-e-r-c-v-g — 10 letters cut to 6 letters of abbreviation, then written in 5 cells. That is 5 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, then dots 1-2-4-5
Unicode ⠏⠻⠉⠧⠛ — 10 letters in 5 cells
How to recognise it
p-er-c-v-g at five cells — the longest shortform on the entire list. It still saves five cells over spelling the word out, which is the point.
Two steps, not one
Abbreviated in letters first, then written in cells. “perceiving” loses 4 letters — e, i, i, n — to become percvg. Then it contracts again: er is a single cell, which is how 6 letters of abbreviation fit into 5 cells.
| Stage | What it is | Cells |
|---|---|---|
| Spelled out | perceiving | 10 cells |
| Abbreviated | percvg | 6 letters |
| Written | 5 cells |
It carries no endings
Nothing derived from “perceiving” keeps this shortform: of the one English word that begins with it, the reference spells it out. These 5 cells write the bare word and nothing else. “good” is the opposite case — it carries seven different endings.
Words that only look like it
One longer form exists and is written out. It begins with the same letters and is written out in full.
| Word | In braille | Cells |
|---|---|---|
| perceivingness | 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), deceiving (dcvg), receiving (rcvg).
What these 5 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 | |
| 1-2-4-5 | the letter g; the word “go” standing alone |
Check your own text
The translator writes “perceiving” with Grade 2 selected, and the contractions page has all seventy-three.
“perceiving” in braille as an image
The word as it is actually written: percvg in 5 cells, not 10 letters.
