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Technical information
| Symbol | ⠀ | |
| Name | Braille pattern blank | |
| Unicode number | U+2800 | |
| Category | Braille Patterns | |
| Description | The Unicode character ⠀, or U+2800, is named "Braille Pattern Blank". It belongs to the "Braille Patterns" block, which includes characters representing Braille, the tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired or blind. This character falls under the "Symbol, Other" category. Visually, the Braille Pattern Blank represents a Braille cell with no raised dots. In the Braille system, different combinations of raised dots in a cell represent different letters, numbers, or punctuation. A blank Braille cell, as represented by U+2800, is equivalent to a space in non-tactile writing systems, used to separate words and sentences. Its specific usage can depend on the rules of the Braille system being used. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ⠀ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ⠀ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%A0%80 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0xA0 0x80 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10100000:10000000 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2800 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002800 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2800" | |
| CSS Code | \2800 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2800" | |
| Perl | \x{2800} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2800" | |
| Python 3 | \u2800 | |
| Ruby | \u{2800} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ⠀ in sentence and in bold like this ⠀ and in italic like this ⠀.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>⠀</span>
span {
content: "\2800";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana