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Translingual

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

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. (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) ስ (sᵊ) [international s, ⠎, is used by śᵊ ]
8. (Bharati Braille) थ (tha)
9. (Tibetan Braille) ཅ (ca)
10. (Burmese Braille) သ (sa)
11. (Thai Braille) พ (ph)
12. (Cantonese Braille) The rime y (yu)

Symbol

⠹ (♩)

1. (music) A quarter C note.

See also

Braille script navigation

⠀   ⠁   ⠂   ⠄   ⠈   ⠐   ⠠

⠃   ⠅   ⠆   ⠘   ⠨   ⠰   ⠉   ⠒   ⠤   ⠑   ⠡   ⠢   ⠊   ⠌   ⠔

⠇   ⠸   ⠪   ⠕   ⠣   ⠜   ⠎   ⠱   ⠋   ⠍   ⠖   ⠙   ⠩   ⠲   ⠓   ⠥   ⠦   ⠚   ⠬   ⠴

⠏   ⠹   ⠧   ⠼   ⠫   ⠝   ⠮   ⠵   ⠺   ⠗   ⠞   ⠳   ⠛   ⠭   ⠶

⠟   ⠻   ⠷   ⠾   ⠯   ⠽   ⠿

• Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠹⟩:    ⡹   ⢹   ⣹

English

Letter

⠹ (t͟h)

1. Renders the print digraph th.

Usage notes

• 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

⠹

1. this

Usage notes

• 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

• ⠘⠮ these

French

Letter

⠹ (ô)

1. The letter ô

Contraction

⠹

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

Usage notes

• 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

⠹ (4)

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

Japanese

Syllable

⠹ (romaji su)

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

Korean

Contraction

⠹ • (eog)

1. The rime or syllable 억 (eok).

Luxembourgish

Numeral

⠹ (4)

1. The digit 4.

See also

Luxembourgish Braille digits: ⠡ 1, ⠣ 2, ⠩ 3, ⠹ 4, ⠱ 5, ⠫ 6, ⠻ 7, ⠳ 8, ⠪ 9, ⠼ 0

Mandarin

Letter

⠹

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

Braille script navigation

⠀   ⠁   ⠂   ⠄   ⠈   ⠐   ⠠

⠃   ⠅   ⠆   ⠘   ⠨   ⠰   ⠉   ⠒   ⠤   ⠑   ⠡   ⠢   ⠊   ⠌   ⠔

⠇   ⠸   ⠪   ⠕   ⠣   ⠜   ⠎   ⠱   ⠋   ⠍   ⠖   ⠙   ⠩   ⠲   ⠓   ⠥   ⠦   ⠚   ⠬   ⠴

⠏   ⠹   ⠧   ⠼   ⠫   ⠝   ⠮   ⠵   ⠺   ⠗   ⠞   ⠳   ⠛   ⠭   ⠶

⠟   ⠻   ⠷   ⠾   ⠯   ⠽   ⠿

• Braille eight-dot extensions from ⟨⠹⟩:    ⡹   ⢹   ⣹