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U+282C, ⠬
BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-346

[U+282B]
Braille Patterns
[U+282D]

Translingual

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A character of the braille script, originally used to transcribe the French letter ò. Some alphabets use it for a variant of u because it is a reflection of the braille letter u, or approximate its English use as ing.

Etymology

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Punctuation mark

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  1. (German Braille) (the section marker, §)

Letter

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  1. (German Braille) A letter rendering the print digraph ie
  2. (Spanish Braille, Navajo Braille) ó
  3. (Polish Braille) ó
  4. (Czech Braille) ú
  5. (Hungarian Braille) ú
  6. (Lithuanian Braille) ų
  7. (Latvian Braille) ū
  8. (Esperanto Braille) ŭ
  9. (IPA Braille) ʌ
Non-Latin transliteration
  1. (International Greek Braille) (ò) [as in French]
  2. (Persian Braille) ژ (zh)
  3. (Ethiopic Braille) (ñᵊ)
  4. (Bharati Braille) (ṅa)
  5. (Thai Braille) (ch)
  6. (Cantonese Braille) The rime aai

Symbol

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  1. (music) minor third.

See also

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English

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Letter

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(ing)

  1. Renders the print sequence -ing, including the suffix -ing.

Usage notes

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  • Cannot appear at the beginning of a word. Otherwise, this is used for any sequence of the letters ing within a word, as in ginger and finger, unless the writer judges this would cause problems with legibility, as in lingerie, or unless it spans the elements of a compound word.

French

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Punctuation mark

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(*)

  1. A (foot)note marker, equivalent to print *, , etc., or to English Braille ⠔⠔.

Usage notes

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Followed by a number or letter for a numbered footnote.

Letter

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(ò)

  1. ò (in foreign words)

Contraction

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(on)

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

Usage notes

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  • The sequence on may appear anywhere in its word.

Japanese

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Syllable

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(romaji yu)

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

Korean

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Etymology

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  • A reversed (o).

Letter

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(yo)

  1. The vowel (yo).

Mandarin

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Letter

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  1. (Mainland Braille) The rime yu/-ü
  2. (Taiwan Braille) The rime ye/-ie
  3. (Two-Cell Braille) The onset du- or the rime -éi

Punctuation mark

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(§)

  1. (Two-Cell Braille) the section marker