⠟

Translingual

The 17th character of the braille script, standardized internationally as the letter q

Etymology

Invented by Louis Braille, braille cells were arranged in numerical order and assigned to letters of the French alphabet. Most braille alphabets follow this assignment for the 26 letters of the basic Latin alphabet, or for the equivalents of those letters in a non-Latin script.

The first ten braille letters are ⠁⠃⠉⠙⠑⠋⠛⠓⠊⠚, usually assigned to the Latin letters a–j. The next ten repeat that pattern with the addition of a dot at the lower left, the third ten with two dots on the bottom, and the fourth with a dot on the bottom right. The fifth decade is like the first, but shifted downward. Many languages which use braille letters beyond the basic 26 for simple letters in their script follow an approximation of the English values for the additional letters.

Letter

⠟

1. (Braille) q
2. (English Braille) Greek ϙ/ϟ (q)
3. (Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba Braille) kw
4. (Hungarian Braille) ö
5. (Albanian Braille) rr (q is assigned to ⠯)
6. (Hebrew Braille) ק‎ (q)
7. (Arabic Braille, Urdu Braille) ق‎ (q)
8. (Amharic Braille) ቀ (ḳ)
9. (Bharati braille) kṣa [apart from Urdu Braille]
10. (Russian Braille) ч (ch)
11. (Tibetan Braille) ཇ (ja)
12. (Chinese Braille) The onset ch
13. (Chinese Two-Cell Braille) The onset ni- or the rime -āi
14. (Taiwan Braille) The onset f
15. (Cantonese Braille) The onset gw (kw) and rime uk
16. (Thai Braille) The vowel เือ eua

Contraction

⠟ (transliteration needed)

1. (English Braille) quite

Погедај и

(Braille script):  ⠀   ⠁   ⠂   ⠄   ⠈   ⠐   ⠠

⠃   ⠅   ⠆   ⠘   ⠨   ⠰   ⠉   ⠒   ⠤

⠑   ⠡   ⠢   ⠊   ⠌   ⠔

⠇   ⠸   ⠎   ⠱   ⠣   ⠜   ⠪   ⠕

⠋   ⠙   ⠓   ⠚   ⠍   ⠩   ⠥   ⠬   ⠖   ⠲   ⠦   ⠴

⠏   ⠹   ⠧   ⠼   ⠫   ⠝   ⠮   ⠵

⠺   ⠗   ⠞   ⠳   ⠛   ⠭   ⠶

⠟   ⠻   ⠷   ⠾   ⠯   ⠽   ⠿

• • Braille eight-dot extensions from ⠟:  ⡟   ⢟  ⣟

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Japanese

Syllable

⠟ (romaji te)

1. The hiragana syllable て (te) or the katakana syllable テ (te) in Japanese braille.