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U+2816, ⠖
BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-235

[U+2815]
Braille Patterns
[U+2817]

Translingual

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A character of the braille script, originally used as an exclamation mark. Some alphabets use it for a variant of f or ph because it is a lowered version of the braille letter f.

Etymology

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Punctuation mark

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  1. (Braille) ! (exclamation mark)

Letter

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  1. (IPA Braille) Modifies the following letter
    ⠖⠉ ç, ⠖⠗ ɾ, ⠖⠧ , ⠖⠍ ɱ, ⠖⠓ ħ, ⠖⠇ ɫ, ⠖⠺ ʍ, ⠖⠆ ʕ
Non-Latin transliteration
  1. (Ethiopic Braille) (p̣ᵊ)
  2. (Bharati Braille) (pha)
  3. (Tibetan Braille) subscript (ra) (see )
  4. (Burmese Braille) (cha)
  5. (Thai Braille) The vowel เ◌า (ao)
  6. (Cantonese Braille) The rime im

See also

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English

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Punctuation mark

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(!)

  1. ! (exclamation mark)

Letter

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(ff)

  1. Renders the print sequence -ff-.

Usage notes

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  • Can only appear within a word where it does not contact an apostrophe or hyphen; at the end of a word it would be confused with an exclamation mark. Cannot span a compound word or an obvious affix, but acceptable in words like suffix where the affix is obscure.

Prefix

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  1. to

Usage notes

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  • This is used for the independent English word to (prepositional or infinitival), but in braille it joins with the following word as an orthographic prefix. It is not used otherwise for the letter sequence t-o.
  • Because this cell does not have dots in the top row, it is not used where it would contact a punctuation mark. (This is not ordinarily an issue because it's only written prefixed to another word.)
  • Abolished in Unified English Braille.

Derived terms

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French

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Punctuation mark

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(!)

  1. The exclamation mark, !.

Symbol

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(+)

  1. (in the context of the Antoine number sign or of the number sign ) The addition sign, +.

Contraction

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  1. The independent word puis.
  2. The letter sequences pr [+V] and pro [+C].

Usage notes

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  • The sequences pr and pro may appear anywhere in their word, with the proviso that they be followed by a vowel or consonant letter, respectively.

Japanese

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Syllable

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(romaji we)

  1. The hiragana syllable (we) or the katakana syllable (we) in Japanese braille.

Korean

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Letter

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(-k)

  1. Syllable-final (k).

Coordinate terms

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  • Syllable-initial .

Punctuation mark

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(!)

  1. the exclamation mark, ⟨!⟩

Mandarin

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Letter

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  1. (Mainland Braille) The rime ao
  2. (Taiwan Braille) The rime yong/-iong
  3. (Two-Cell Braille) The onset f-

Contraction

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  1. (Two-Cell Braille) the suffix (-shi) (compare )