Braille Translator
Turn text into braille characters you can copy and paste, or paste braille to read it as text. It writes uncontracted (grade 1) Unified English Braille: one cell per letter, plus the capital and number signs.
These are Unicode braille characters, which show the dot patterns on screen. Most English braille on paper is contracted (grade 2), so have anything blind readers will rely on checked by a braille transcriber.
Type or paste in either box: it translates both ways.
Braille alphabet
Click any character to copy its code.
Questions
How are capital letters and numbers written in braille?
The capital sign ⠠ goes before a capital letter, and two of them (⠠⠠) before a word in capitals. Numbers start with the number sign ⠼ and use the letters a–j for 1–0, so 2026 is ⠼⠃⠚⠃⠋.
Does this work for other languages?
Each language has its own braille code. This translator follows English braille, which covers the 26 Latin letters; accents are dropped, so check the braille code of your language for anything official.
What is the blank braille character?
⠀ (U+2800) is a braille cell with no dots. It looks like a space but counts as a character, which is why people use it to keep empty lines in Instagram captions.