Shortform
“receiving” in braille
Written r-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 1-2-3-5, 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
r-c-v-g, the receive shortform plus a g. Of the four -ceiving words this is the one you will actually meet — it is in the five thousand commonest English words and the other three are not.
Two steps, not one
Abbreviated in letters first, then written in cells. “receiving” loses 5 letters — e, e, i, i, n — to become rcvg. Every letter of the abbreviation is then written as itself, one cell each.
| Stage | What it is | Cells |
|---|---|---|
| Spelled out | receiving | 9 cells |
| Abbreviated | rcvg | 4 letters |
| Written | 4 cells |
It carries no endings
No English word begins with “receiving” except the word itself, so there is nothing for an ending rule to decide here. These 4 cells write the bare word and nothing else. “good” is the opposite case — it carries seven different endings.
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), perceiving (percvg).
What these 4 cells mean elsewhere
Every cell here has other jobs, which is where misreadings come from:
| Cell | Dots | What it is elsewhere |
|---|---|---|
| 1-2-3-5 | the letter r; the word “rather” 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 “receiving” with Grade 2 selected, and the contractions page has all seventy-three.
“receiving” in braille as an image
The word as it is actually written: rcvg in 4 cells, not 9 letters.
