⠠
⠠ - Translingual
The diacritic that creates the 4th decade of the braille script.
Symbol
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- (English Braille) Used to capitalize the Braille character that follows.
- (English Braille) A prefix marking various letter sequences:
- (French Braille) Used to indicate an Antoine number. (Compare ⠼.)
- (Chinese Two-Cell Braille) (emphasis)
- (IPA Braille) Subscript mark
Usage notes
As a capitalization mark, it is doubled to capitalize an entire word, and tripled to capitalize a longer text.
As a sequence marker, it cannot occur at the beginning of a word. This usage is used in the United States, but has been abolished from Unified English Braille.
Punctuation mark
⠠
Letter
⠠
- (Arabic Braille) ـّ (shadda: gemination)
- (Bharati braille) visarga -h
- (Cantonese Braille) Tone 5
- (Vietnamese Braille) tone ◌̣
- (Korean Braille) Initial ㅅ (s)