Braille script
Tactile writing system for blind and visually impaired people
- Instance of
- Subclass of
- Founded
- 1824
1
Sources- 1.“Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong by Means of Dots”archive.org/details/methodofwritingw00loui/page/n45/mode/2upRetrieved 2026-01-08
- 1824
Overview
All data
77 statements · 21% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Script directionality
- left-to-right applies to part: reading, displaying · has characteristic: relief sculpture
- right-to-left applies to part: punching, paper embossing · has characteristic: cavity, mirrored glyph
- Unicode range
- U+2800-28FF depicted by: Unicode chart Braille Patterns
On other databases
54 identifiers linking Braille script across the web's reference databases
- Anadolu Agency infographic ID31604
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID300194373
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlineakluju-rastas
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/2777
- Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID3473
- BBC Things IDc340952c-d47e-4a05-b49b-6452ce03da5c
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID157829042
- Bing entity ID363cd050-fc2d-6f48-b2af-fd5d61485b8a
- BNCF Thesaurus ID6720
- Cultureel Woordenboek IDtechologie-en-techniek/brailleschrift
- Cyprus Bibliography ID11053
- Dewey Decimal Classification411
- Encyclopaedia Beliana IDbraillovo-pismo
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDtopic/Braille-writing-system
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDbraille
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)XsQiI
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)232559
- Freebase ID/m/018yz
- GitHub topicbraille
- GND ID4145976-3
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDbrailevskii-shrift-00adf9
- Immaterieelerfgoed.be ID38352350-1288-4b21-876a-240860e7124a
- ISO 15924 alpha-4 codeBrai
- ISO 15924 numeric code570
- J9U entity ID987007563517405171
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)braille
- KBpedia IDBraille
- Larousse IDdivers/braille/28579
- Lex IDblindeskrift
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh94008942
- Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings IDsj2021054166
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)2778802812
- Museum-digital tag ID37112
- NDL Authority ID00572882
- NL CR AUT IDph303205
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning428293
- Open Food Facts labelen:in-braille
- OpenAlex IDC2778802812
- Quora topic IDBraille
- ScienceDirect topic IDmedicine-and-dentistry/braille
- SVKKL authority ID0218489-Braillovo-pismo
- TDKIV term ID000001932
- TDKIV Wikibase IDQ1930
- Treccani IDbraille
- U.S. National Archives Identifier10663116
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID8774
- UN Thesaurus ID1000680
- UNESCO Thesaurus IDconcept4136
- Vikidia article IDfr:Braille
- WikiKids IDBraille
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID06374199-n
- Yale LUX IDconcept/1dc8b655-212a-4efb-9fcc-fa082cbf83ab
- YSO ID19350
- Zhihu topic ID19672519
