The hyphen in braille

How to recognise it

Dots 3 and 6, the two bottom dots. Like the apostrophe it sits outside the lower-sign pattern.

It is not built from a letter

Most single-cell marks are one of the first ten letters shifted down a row. The hyphen 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 hyphen doing its job, written in Grade 1 so every letter has its own cell.

A well-known writer.

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.