Braille Patterns

Braille symbols to copy and paste — 256 of them on this page, and one tap copies any of them straight to your clipboard. No highlighting, no long-press menu, no sign-up. Use the search box to find a symbol by name, or right-click (long-press on mobile) to stack several into the combo tray and copy the whole decoration at once.

Braille symbols to copy and paste
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Most Used

The braille symbols people copy most often — start here.

Single Symbols

One character each. These paste cleanly into any name or bio.

All 256 patterns, and what they are for

The Braille Patterns block contains every possible combination of eight dots, from the empty cell ⠀ to the full one ⣿. They are on this site for two reasons that have nothing to do with braille itself: they make an excellent low-resolution drawing grid, and one of them is a blank character that most systems accept.

Braille text art

Because each character carries eight independently-set dots, a grid of braille characters gives you eight times the resolution of a grid of blocks. That is why converted images and ASCII-art shading so often use this block — ⢎⡱⣠⠶⠛ and similar sequences are pictures rather than words.

The blank braille character

⠀ — U+2800, BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK — is a character with no visible dots. Many platforms that strip ordinary spaces from a username or a message will accept it, which is why it circulates as an “invisible character”.

Two honest caveats. It is not universally accepted: plenty of platforms filter it deliberately. And it is not really invisible — to a screen reader it announces itself as a braille character, so using it to fake an empty name is unkind to anyone browsing that way.

Frequently asked questions

What is the invisible character?

Usually U+2800, the blank braille pattern. It renders as nothing visible on most systems while still counting as a character.

Will the blank character work in my username?

Sometimes. Some platforms accept it, others strip it or reject the name outright. It is worth testing rather than relying on.

Are braille symbols real braille?

They are the real Unicode braille patterns, but a random pattern is not meaningful braille text. Used decoratively they spell nothing.

Why is braille used for text art?

Each character encodes eight separate dots, so a braille grid has far more resolution than a grid of block characters — which makes it the best option for converting an image into plain text.

Popular braille symbols and what they are called

The hardest part of finding braille symbols is that most people have no name for the character they are looking for. Here are ten of the most-copied braille symbols on this page with their official Unicode names, so the search box — here or anywhere else — actually finds them next time.

  • ⠀ — Braille Pattern Blank
  • ⠁ — Braille Pattern Dots-1
  • ⠂ — Braille Pattern Dots-2
  • ⠃ — Braille Pattern Dots-12
  • ⠄ — Braille Pattern Dots-3
  • ⠅ — Braille Pattern Dots-13
  • ⠆ — Braille Pattern Dots-23
  • ⠇ — Braille Pattern Dots-123
  • ⠈ — Braille Pattern Dots-4
  • ⠉ — Braille Pattern Dots-14

Checking braille symbols before you commit to them

Every character here is defined by the Unicode standard, which fixes what a character means but not how it is drawn. That is left to whichever font the reading device happens to use, which is why the same symbol can look rounder on an iPhone than on Android, and why a rarely-supported one shows as an empty box. If you want to check where a particular character comes from, the official Unicode character charts list every block.

In practice the rule is simple: the older and more common the character, the safer it is. If a decoration is going somewhere you cannot easily edit later — a username, a printed document, a shared profile — paste it into a message to yourself on a second device first and see what arrives.

Everything on this page is free to use. The braille symbols here are ordinary Unicode characters rather than images or a font you have to install, which is why they copy and paste cleanly between apps, survive being sent in a message, and cost you nothing to use commercially. Tap any of the braille symbols above whenever you need one.

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