Some examples of Japanese braille or "tenji"

This page gives some examples of Japanese-style braille (raised dots used as a form of text for the blind) as found on products in Japan. This page uses Unicode braille characters.

This logo from the top of a can of alcopops says おさけ, ⠊⠱⠫, which just means "alcohol".

The braille is a simple conversion of the three kana characters into braille, お to ⠊, さ to ⠱, and け to ⠫.

These characters from a bottle of lemon juice spell out the brand name of the juice, ぽっか れもん ("Pokka Lemon"):

The remon part is a simple one-to-one transcription from れもん to ⠛⠾⠴. The "pokka" part shows the feature that the handakuten ⠠ in tenji comes before the ほ kana tenji, ⠮, which it modifies.

Here is an advanced puzzle, the braille on a washing machine:

You can check your answers using Convert romaji to kana.

Web links

• 点字の読み方一覧表 ("A table of tenji")

  This page and the accompanying pages give a dictionary of tenji.