Braille Pattern Blank

Group: Braille

Keywords

braille

About this character

Braille Pattern Blank belongs to the Braille group and is encoded at U+2800. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+2800
Hex: 2800
Decimal: 10240
HTML: ⠀
CSS: \2800
JavaScript: \u2800
Python: \u2800
UTF-8: E2 A0 80

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Braille Pattern Dots-1 U+2801
Braille Pattern Dots-2 U+2802
Braille Pattern Dots-12 U+2803
Braille Pattern Dots-3 U+2804
Braille Pattern Dots-13 U+2805
Braille Pattern Dots-23 U+2806
Braille Pattern Dots-123 U+2807
Braille Pattern Dots-4 U+2808
Braille Pattern Dots-14 U+2809
Braille Pattern Dots-24 U+280A
Braille Pattern Dots-124 U+280B
Braille Pattern Dots-34 U+280C
Braille Pattern Dots-134 U+280D
Braille Pattern Dots-234 U+280E
Braille Pattern Dots-1234 U+280F
Braille Pattern Dots-5 U+2810
Braille Pattern Dots-15 U+2811
Braille Pattern Dots-25 U+2812
Braille Pattern Dots-125 U+2813
Braille Pattern Dots-35 U+2814
Braille Pattern Dots-135 U+2815
Braille Pattern Dots-235 U+2816
Braille Pattern Dots-1235 U+2817
Braille Pattern Dots-45 U+2818

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.