As a native English speaker who’s going blind, I’ve been learning braille as of late, which has been a rather overwhelming undertaking. However, I learned that there exists Japanese braille, which seems to use an 8 dot grid as opposed to English’s 6 dot grid. I was wondering if anyone here knows much about Japanese braille? I think it could be a fun discussion.
From what I understand, hiragana and katakana are represented on six of the eight dots, similar to English braille. But kanji is represented by sequences of radicals that utilize the full eight grids. But I could be wrong, I only just discovered this recently lol.
点 is a little above me, but it looks like this comes out to “point character.” That is incredibly fitting.