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Translingual
The 15th character of the braille script, standardized internationally as the letter o
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
⠕
- (Braille) o
- (Greek Braille) ο (o)
- (Yugoslav Braille) o / о
- (Russian Braille) о (o)
- (Hebrew Braille) וֹ (o)
- (Arabic Braille) ى (ā)
- (Tibetan Braille) ོ (-o)
- (Chinese Braille) The rime wo/-uo
- (Chinese Two-Cell Braille) The onset qi- or the rime -ēng (-īng, -ōng)
- (Taiwan Braille) The onset b
- (Cantonese Braille) The rime o
- (Thai Braille) The vowel ◌อ o/aw (ɔ); the letter used to carry an initial vowel
- (Korean Braille) ㅣ (i)
Usage notes
- (Thai Braille) Short aw is written ⠕⠁ in braille but เ◌าะ in print. Functions as a null carrier "consonant" for an initial vowel; ⠕⠕ is initial aw.