Cantonese Braille

Although Cantonese is written in Chinese characters, Cantonese Braille is purely phonetic, with punctuation, digits and Latin letters from the original Braille.

The rimes eu, em, ep do not exist in braille.

Otherwise tone is written after the rime, as follows: In numerical order, the cells are as follows: Some of the punctuation marks are distinguished from the onset or rime of a syllable by the strategic use of the ⠀ space.

The spaces are therefore included in the table below, though they are not technically part of the punctuation mark.

The emphasis marks, ⠷⠻ are equivalent to running dots alongside the characters in print, while proper names are marked in print by an underline or overline.

Braille map at Central Pier 3, Hong Kong , with English and Cantonese Braille text.