Korean Braille ⠚⠒⠈⠮⠨⠎⠢⠨
Script type	Tactilealphabet ,syllabically marked
Print basis	Hangul
Languages	Korean
Related scripts
Parent systems	Night writing Braille Korean Braille

This article containsUnicode Braille characters. Without properrendering support, you may seequestion marks, boxes, or other symbols instead ofBraille characters.

Korean writing systems
Hangul
New Korean Orthography
Hanja
Gukja (Yakja) Kugyŏl Idu (Hyangch'al)
Mixed script
Braille
Transcription
McCune–Reischauer Romanization of Korean (North Korea) ALA-LC romanization for Korean Revised Romanization (South Korea) Bok Moon Kim romanization [ko] Kontsevich (Cyrillic) Kholodovich system [ru] (Cyrillic)
Transliteration
Yale (scholar) ISO/TR 11941 (Unicode & ISO)
v t e

Korean Braille is theBraille alphabet of theKorean language. It is not graphically-related to other braille scripts found around the world. Instead, it reflects the patterns found inHangul, and differentiatesinitialconsonants,vowels, and final consonants.

The first tactile encoding of Hangul was developed byRosetta Sherwood Hall in 1897. It used a cell 4 dots wide by 2 dots high, likeNew York Point. 6-dot braille was adapted to Korean byPark Du-seong in 1926. There have since been a number of revisions. The current form was announced in 1994.

It features characters for grammatical devices andpunctuation. Numerals are similar to those of other braille systems.

Consonants have differentsyllable-initial and -final variants, capturing some of the feel of hangul. The initial and final variants have the same shapes, but are shifted across the braille block. There are two patterns: The consonants that span the width of the block are shifted one space downward when final. Those that do not span the width of the block are on the right side of the block when initial, but on the left side when final. The sibilants ㅅ ㅈ ㅊ all have a bottom dot, while the other aspirated consonants, ㅋ ㅌ ㅍ ㅎ, all have angled forms.

No consonant occupies more than two rows.

roman	g	n	d	r	m	b	s	j	ch	k	t	p	h	ng
hangul	ㄱ	ㄴ	ㄷ	ㄹ	ㅁ	ㅂ	ㅅ	ㅈ	ㅊ	ㅋ	ㅌ	ㅍ	ㅎ	ㅇ
initial														*
	⠈	⠉	⠊	⠐	⠑	⠘	⠠	⠨	⠰	⠋	⠓	⠙	⠚
final
	⠁	⠒	⠔	⠂	⠢	⠃	⠄	⠅	⠆	⠖	⠦	⠲	⠴	⠶

*There is no initial version ofng. Initialieung in hangul is not written in Korean Braille. However, the expected form is reserved and may not serve other basic uses, such as punctuation, but it is used in contractions (see below).

The heavy (double) consonants are written by prefixing ans, an old hangul convention. In initial position, they are:^[1]

⠠⠠ ㅆss

⠠⠈ ㄲkk

⠠⠊ ㄸtt

⠠⠘ ㅃpp

⠠⠨ ㅉjj

All vowels span the width and height of the block. Because the consonants are specifically syllable-initial or syllable-final, a syllable that begins with a vowel causes no confusion when written withoutieung.

The simpler vowels reflect thesymmetries of hangul: theyin–yang pairsa, eo ando, u are related through inversion, and yotization ofa, eo, o, u is indicated by reflecting the vowel. This creates a different pattern of symmetry than in hangul. The graphically-similar hangul lettersi andeu are also related by reflection. Thew inwa, wo is indicated by making the left side of the block solid (essentially a conflation ofo anda forwa, and ofu andeo forwo), while thei inui, oe is shown by making the right side solid. However, thediphthongse, ae and their yotized variants show no such patterns.

Four diphthongs are represented with two braille blocks, by adding⠗ to the appropriate vowel for the final element-i.

roman	a	ya	eo	yeo	o	yo	u	yu	eu	i	e	ae	ye
hangul	ㅏ	ㅑ	ㅓ	ㅕ	ㅗ	ㅛ	ㅜ	ㅠ	ㅡ	ㅣ	ㅔ	ㅐ	ㅖ
braille
	⠣	⠜	⠎	⠱	⠥	⠬	⠍	⠩	⠪	⠕	⠝	⠗	⠌

roman	ui	wa	wo	oe	yae	wae	we	wi
hangul	ㅢ	ㅘ	ㅝ	ㅚ	ㅒ	ㅙ	ㅞ	ㅟ
braille
	⠺	⠧	⠏	⠽	⠜⠗	⠧⠗	⠏⠗	⠍⠗

Korean Braille defines several cells as consonant-vowel or vowel-consonant sequences. These may be used alone as syllables or combined with another initial or final consonant for a longer syllable. Many are the braille cell for an initial consonant, with an assumed vowel "a" added. (For example, initials- on its own is readsa, while initials- followed by final-m is readsam.) Some make use of otherwise unused cells, while some are multi-cell abbreviations, often using malformed consonant clusters or consonant/vowel combinations otherwise abbreviated.

roman	ga	na	da	ma	ba	sa	ja	ka	ta	pa	ha	-ss	eog	ong
hangul	가	나	다	마	바	사	자	카	타	파	하	-ㅆ	억	옹
braille
	⠫	⠉	⠊	⠑	⠘	⠇	⠨	⠋	⠓	⠙	⠚	⠌	⠹	⠿

roman	ul	og	yeon	un	on	eon	eol	yeol	in	yeong[2]	eul	eun	geos
hangul	울	옥	연	운	온	언	얼	열	인	영[2]	을	은	것
braille
	⠯	⠭	⠡	⠛	⠷	⠾	⠞	⠳	⠟	⠻	⠮	⠵	⠸⠎

roman	geureona		geureomyeon		geuraeseo		geureonde		geureomeuro		geurigo		geurihayeo
hangul	그러나		그러면		그래서		그런데		그러므로		그리고		그리하여
braille
	⠁⠉		⠁⠒		⠁⠎		⠁⠝		⠁⠢		⠁⠥		⠁⠱

print	,	;	:	.	?	!	“...”	‘...’	(...)
braille							...	...	...
	⠐	⠰⠆	⠐⠂	⠲	⠦	⠖	⠦...⠴	⠠⠦...⠴⠄	⠤...⠤

print	–	–	※	·	/	+	−	×	÷	=
braille
	⠤	⠤⠤	⠔⠔	⠐⠆	⠸⠌	⠢	⠔	⠡	⠌⠌	⠒⠒

print	(number)	(roman)
braille
	⠼	⠴

As in most braille scripts,⠼ is prefixed todigits, which are the same as inEnglish Braille.⠴ is prefixed to the 26basic roman letters in the same way.

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