U+285B BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12457

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Decimal / Nº
10331
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+285B, officially named BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-12457, was introduced in Unicode version 3.0. It is part of the Braille block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Brai script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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10331 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 A1 9B Copied!
UTF-16 28 5B Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 28 5B Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%A1%9B Copied!
HTML hex reference ⡛ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'285B' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u285B Copied!
C and C++ \u285b Copied!
C# \u285b Copied!
CSS \00285B Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(10331) Copied!
Go \u285b Copied!
JavaScript \u285B Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{285b} Copied!
JSON \u285B Copied!
Java \u285B Copied!
Lua \u{285B} Copied!
Matlab char(10331) Copied!
Perl \x{285B} Copied!
PHP \u{285b} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\285B' Copied!
PowerShell `u{285B} Copied!
Python \u285b Copied!
Ruby \u{285b} Copied!
Rust \u{285b} Copied!