Scottish Sensory Centre Braille Competency Glossary
(c) SSC 2010
Punctuation
note: 6 dots before sign is to show full cell size| punctuation | dots | braille |
| asterisk * | two signs for 'in' in sequence |  |
| brackets (parenthesis) | 2, 3, 5 and 6 (lower d) for both |  |
| colon : | 2 and 5 |  |
| comma , | 2 |  |
| ditto " | 5 followed by 2 with no space | |
| ellipsis ... | 3 three times in consecutive cells |  |
| exclamation ! | 2, 3 and 5 (lower f) |  |
full stop . | 2, 5 and 6 (lower d) |  |
| hyphen (dash) - -- | 3 and 6 (lower c) | < |
| italics italics | 4 and 6 | |
| oblique sign (forward slash) / | 3 and 4 |  |
| paragraph sign ¶ | p with 3, 4, 5 |  |
| question mark ? | 2, 3 and 6 (lower h) |  |
| quotation opening quote | 2, 3, and 6 (lower h) | |
| closing quote | 3, 5 and 6 (lower j) |  |
| semicolon ; | 2 and 3 (lower b) |  |
| square brackets opening | 6 with bracket |  |
| square brackets closing | bracket with 3 |  |