Dot number
Dot 6 in braille
Dot 6 is the capital letter sign — and one other thing besides, because one cell in braille almost never means one thing. It is the one raised position out of the six a cell has.
Dot 6
Unicode ⠠ — U+2820, nothing on the left and 1 dot on the right
The 2 things this cell can be
One cell, 2 jobs. Which one applies is decided by where the cell sits — beside a letter, between two, or alone between spaces — and never by the cell itself.
| Reading | Kind | Where it applies |
|---|---|---|
| the capital letter sign | Indicator | Capitalises the single letter that follows. |
| the capital word sign, written twice | Indicator | Written twice. Capitalises the whole word that follows. |
Where you will meet it
The frequency list this site measures against is five thousand plain lowercase words, so it contains no example of this cell at all. These are written out instead, and rendered by the same translator as everything else here.
| Written | In braille |
|---|---|
| London | |
| Braille |
The same cell in the other codes
Braille is not one code. This site publishes five, and they do not put this cell to the same use. Text written with one table and read with another does not come out as an accent or two — it comes out as different words.
| Code | What this cell is |
|---|---|
| Unified English Braille | the capital letter sign, and the capital word sign, written twice |
| Spanish braille | no reading of its own — see its alphabet |
| Portuguese braille | no reading of its own — see its alphabet |
| Arabic braille | the shadda, which doubles the letter it precedes |
| Hindi braille | visarga |
One dot away
Under the fingers a missed or imagined dot turns this cell into 5 others. These are the ones to check against when a word will not resolve.
| Cell | Dots | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| 1-6 | the letters ch inside a word, and the word “child” alone | |
| 2-6 | the letters en inside a word; the word “enough” standing alone | |
| 3-6 | the hyphen | |
| 4-6 | the opening cell of 5 final-letter contractions | |
| 5-6 | the letter sign; the grade 1 symbol; the opening cell of 7 final-letter contractions |
Look up something else
The dot-number lookup takes any combination of the six, the decoder reads a whole passage back, and the chart runs the other way, from the letter to the dots.
Dot 6 as an image
The cell on its own: dot 6 filled, the other five positions shown empty — which is the part a description in words tends to leave out.
