Braille kanji
Braille for transcribing written Japanese / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Braille Kanji (Japanese: 漢点字, Hepburn: Kantenji, lit. Chinese dot characters) is a system of braille for transcribing written Japanese. It was devised in 1969 by Tai'ichi Kawakami (川上 泰一), a teacher at the Osaka School for the Blind [ja], and was still being revised in 1991. It supplements Japanese Braille by providing a means of directly encoding kanji characters without having to first convert them to kana. It uses an 8-dot braille cell, with the lower six dots corresponding to the cells of standard Japanese Braille, and the upper two dots indicating the constituent parts of the kanji.[1][2] The upper dots are numbered 0 (upper left) and 7 (upper right), the opposite convention of 8-dot braille in Western countries, where the extra dots are added to the bottom of the cell. A kanji will be transcribed by anywhere from one to three braille cells.
Kantenji 漢点字 ⢱⢚⠷⣸⠓⢜ | |
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Script type | logographic
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Status | unofficial |
Print basis | kanji |
Languages | Japanese |
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