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Translingual

A character of the braille script, originally used to transcribe the letter ì. Some alphabets use it for a variant of i (or the English pronunciation of the letter i) because it is a stretched version of the braille letter ⠊ i, or for a variant of ch because it is a reflection of the braille letter ⠡, which is ch in English Braille.

Etymology

More information

Invented by Louis Braille, braille cells were arranged in numerical order and assigned to the letters of the French alphabet. Most braille alphabets follow this assignment for the 26 letters of the basic Latin alphabet or, in non-Latin scripts, for the transliterations of those letters. In such alphabets, the first ten braille letters (the first decade: ⠁⠃⠉⠙⠑⠋⠛⠓⠊⠚) are assigned to the Latin letters A to J and to the digits 1 to 9 and 0. (Apart from '2', the even digits all have three dots: ⠃⠙⠋⠓⠚.)

The letters of the first decade are those cells with at least one dot in the top row and at least one in the left column, but none in the bottom row. The next decade repeat the pattern with the addition of a dot at the lower left, the third decade with two dots in the bottom row, and the fourth with a dot on the bottom right. The fifth decade is like the first, but shifted downward one row. The first decade is supplemented by the two characters with dots in the right column and none in the bottom row, and that supplement is propagated to the other decades using the generation rules above. Finally, there are four characters with no dots in the top two rows. Many languages that use braille letters beyond the 26 of the basic Latin alphabet follow an approximation of the English or French values for additional letters.

Letter

⠌

1. (Spanish Braille, Navajo Braille) í
2. (Hungarian Braille) í
3. (Czech Braille) í
4. (German Braille) A letter rendering the print digraph äu
5. (Latvian Braille) u
6. (Hausa Braille) ts
7. (IPA Braille) ɪ

Non-Latin transliteration

1. (International Greek Braille) ὶ (ì) [as in French]
2. (Yugoslav Braille) ќ (kj) [Macedonian]
3. (Arabic Braille) أ (ʾa)
4. (Bharati Braille) ऐ and ◌ै (ai)
5. (Burmese Braille) င (nga)
6. (Thai Braille) ฉ (ch)
7. (Cantonese Braille) The rime aau

Symbol

⠌

1. (music) minor second.

See also

Braille script navigation

• Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠌⟩:    ⡌   ⢌   ⣌

English

Letter

⠌ (st)

1. Renders the print sequence st in the same morpheme.

Usage notes

Decisions on use may involve a judgement call. For instance, this letter is used in Charleston but not in Charlestown, which is pronounced like a compound word.

Punctuation mark

⠌ (/)

1. the solidus /
2. the fraction bar

Usage notes

This is used regardless of whether the fraction divider is a solidus or an underscore in print.

Synonyms

• Unified English Braille ⠸⠌

Derivations

⠌⠨⠅ (≠)

Contraction

⠌

1. still

Usage notes

• This is used for the independent word still (noun, adjective or verb) and where the word still is set off with an apostrophe or hyphen. It is not used for the simple letter sequence s-t-i-l-l, not even in inflections or non-hyphenated derivations such as stills or stillness.

French

Punctuation mark

⠌ (/)

1. the solidus /

Symbol

⠌ (/)

1. (in the context of the Antoine number sign ⟨⠠⟩ or of the number sign ⠼) The fraction bar.

Usage notes

This is used for the fraction divider, whether that is a slash or an underscore in print.

Letter

⠌ (ì)

1. ì (in foreign words)

Contraction

⠌ (ai)

1. The letter sequence ai, including the independent word ai.

Usage notes

• The sequence ai may appear anywhere in its word.

Japanese

Syllable

⠌ (romaji ya)

1. The hiragana syllable や (ya) or the katakana syllable ヤ (ya) in Japanese braille.

Korean

Letter

⠌ • (ye)

1. ㅖ (ye).
2. Syllable-final ㅆ (ss).

Coordinate terms

• Syllable-initial ⠠⠠ (ss-).

Mandarin

Letter

⠌

1. (Mainland Braille) The onset zh
2. (Taiwan Braille) The rime wu/-u
3. (Two-Cell Braille) The onset d- or the rime -èi

Braille script navigation

• Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠌⟩:    ⡌   ⢌   ⣌