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Translingual
editA character of the braille script, standardized internationally as the letter w.
Etymology
editInvented 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
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- (international braille) w
- (International Greek Braille) ω ô (Greek Braille uses ⠚)
- (Esperanto Braille) ĵ
- (Czech Braille) ř
- (Latvian Braille) v
- (Russian Braille) в (v)
- (Hebrew Braille) ו (v)
- (Arabic Braille) و (w)
- (Amharic Braille) ወ (w)
- (Bharati braille) ṭha
- (Burmese Braille) ဝ (wa)
- (Tibetan Braille) ཝ (wa)
- (Cantonese Braille) The onset w and rime ek
- (Thai Braille) ว w
Symbol
edit⠺ (♩)
- (music) A quarter B note.
See also
editEnglish
editLetter
edit⠺ (w)
- Renders the print letter w.
Contraction
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Usage notes
edit- This is used for the independent word will (auxiliary or noun) and where the word will is set off with an apostrophe or hyphen, or capitalized for the name Will. It is not used otherwise for the letter sequence w-i-l-l.
French
editLetter
edit⠺ (w)
- The letter w.
Usage notes
editAppended to the alphabet to render English.
Contraction
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- The independent word tous.
- The letter sequences om and -tt-.
Usage notes
edit- The sequence om may appear anywhere in its word.
- The sequence -tt- must appear between vowel letters.
Japanese
editSyllable
edit⠺ (romaji so)
Korean
editEtymology
edit- ⠪ (eu) with the right (i) side filled in, eui being romanized as 'ui'.
Letter
edit⠺ • (ui)
- The vowel ㅢ (ui).
Mandarin
editLetter
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- (Mainland Braille) The rime wei/-ui
- (Taiwan Braille) The rime ai
- (Two-Cell Braille) The onset mi- or the rime -á
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