A way of physically representing six-bit characters as raised dots in a braille cell.

However, because the six-dot braille cell only offers 64 patterns (2, including the space), many braille characters have different meanings based on their context.

A braille embosser is an impact printer that renders text as tactile braille cells.

Several are simply the braille cell for an initial consonant, with an assumed vowel "a" added.

Usually, only 40 or 80 braille cells are displayed.

All of these signs use only the right-hand side of the braille cell.

Thus each of the braille cells has aspects of an abugida.

Braille signing: Using six spots on the palm to represent the six dots of a braille cell.

This method can have multiple receivers on top of each other, however a receiver sitting opposite will be reading the braille cell backwards.

The block contains all 256 possible patterns of an 8-dot braille cell, thereby including the complete 6-dot cell range.