The apostrophe in braille

How to recognise it

A single dot 3, at the bottom left. It is one of only two single-cell marks that is not a letter shifted downwards.

It is not built from a letter

Most single-cell marks are one of the first ten letters shifted down a row. The apostrophe is one of the two that is not — it stands on its own, so there is no shortcut and it simply has to be learned. The other marks mostly do follow the pattern.

In a sentence

Here is the apostrophe doing its job, written in Grade 1 so every letter has its own cell.

It's the reader's choice.

Try your own text in the translator, or paste braille into the decoder to read it back.

Marks it is confused with

These differ by a single dot. Punctuation is harder to tell apart than letters because the marks are small and sit low in the cell, so a missing dot is easy to miss.