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A six-dot cell in two columns of three, indicating braille provision.
Also known as: Braille cell, Six dots symbol, Raised dots symbol
Six dots in a two-by-three cell stand for braille. The cell is the unit of the writing system itself: every braille character is one arrangement of those six positions, raised or flat.
Indicates that a material, sign or service is available in braille, or that braille is present on the object itself.
Contexts: Public information
Depicts the braille cell: six dot positions in two columns of three, each of which is either raised or absent, giving sixty-four possible characters.
Contexts: Public information
Descends from a night-writing system devised for military use, which Louis Braille reworked into a six-dot cell readable under a single fingertip.
1820s onward · Contexts: Public information
Is a sign about braille rather than a piece of braille. The six dots are an emblem meaning 'braille is available here' — on a menu, a leaflet, a lift panel or a museum label — and reading them as a braille cell produces a single letter that is not the message.
Contexts: Public information
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Dots-and-hand form
A hand shown reading a line of raised dots, used where the plain six-dot cell is thought too abstract to be understood without explanation.
Six small filled dots arranged in a rectangle, two across and three down, evenly spaced.