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U+2839, ⠹
BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-1456

[U+2838]
Braille Patterns
[U+283A]

Translingual

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A character of the braille script, originally used to transcribe the French letter ô, though many alphabets approximate its English use as th. A few use it for a variant of p because it is a reflection of the braille letter p.

Etymology

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Letter

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  1. (Vietnamese Braille) ô [as in French Braille]
  2. (Icelandic Braille) ó
  3. (obsolete, Spanish Braille) w
  4. (Navajo Braille) ł
  5. (German Braille, Dutch Braille) A letter rendering the print digraph ch
  6. (Polish Braille) ń
  7. (Hungarian Braille) A letter rendering the print digraph gy
  8. (Czech Braille) ď
  9. (Albanian Braille) dh
Non-Latin transliteration
  1. (Greek Braille) θ (th)
  2. (Yugoslav Braille) đ ~ ђ
  3. (Ukrainian Braille) ї (yi)
  4. (Russian Braille, obsolete) ѣ
  5. (Hebrew Braille) ת (t)
  6. (Arabic Braille) ث (th)
  7. (Ethiopic Braille) (sᵊ) [international s, , is used by śᵊ ]
  8. (Bharati Braille) (tha)
  9. (Tibetan Braille) (ca)
  10. (Burmese Braille) (sa)
  11. (Thai Braille) (ph)
  12. (Cantonese Braille) The rime y (yu)

Symbol

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()

  1. (music) A quarter C note.

See also

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English

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Letter

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(t͟h)

  1. Renders the print digraph th.

Usage notes

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  • This is used for the digraph th, not just any sequence of t + h. For example, outhouse needs to be spelled out. It forms the ordinals of digits such as ⠼⠛⠹ 7th.

Contraction

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  1. this

Usage notes

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  • This is used for the independent word this and where the word this is set off with an apostrophe or hyphen, for example this'll. It is not used otherwise for the letter sequence t-h-i-s.

Coordinate terms

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French

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Letter

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(ô)

  1. The letter ô

Contraction

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  1. The independent word dans.
  2. The letter sequence dr [+V].
  3. The letter sequence -ant.

Usage notes

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  • The sequence dr may appear anywhere in its word, as long as it is followed by a vowel.
  • The sequence -ant must appear at the end of its word.

Numeral

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(4)

  1. (in the context of the Antoine number sign ) 4

Japanese

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Syllable

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(romaji su)

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

Korean

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Contraction

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(eog)

  1. The rime or syllable (eok).

Luxembourgish

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Numeral

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(4)

  1. The digit 4.

See also

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Luxembourgish Braille digits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0

Mandarin

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Letter

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  1. (Mainland Braille) The rime yong/-iong
  2. (Taiwan Braille) The rime yin/-in
  3. (Two-Cell Braille) The onset zu- or the rime -áng