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Can any of you help me decipher the Braille on this pill box? (i.imgur.com)
submitted by novaskyd
novaskyd [OP] 1 points 7y ago
Hello, I am new here so apologies if this is against the rules. It is an image so it may be hard for actual blind people to help me, but if you can see the image and read Braille maybe you can?

The image is of a pill box I have lying around at home. It has the days of the week abbreviated in English (Sun, Mon, etc.) and Braille next to each day. But I looked up the Braille alphabet for English and it doesn't correspond. I looked up Braille calendars and the letters don't match. I thought, maybe they are the numbers 1 to 7 but that doesn't match either. This box came from China, so I even looked up Chinese Braille but I didn't get anywhere.

This is idle curiosity, I just like linguistics and enjoy deciphering things like this--but I can't figure this one out. What am I missing? Any help appreciated!
fastfinge 2 points 7y ago
I Cant' see the image, obviously. But I have one of these, that I take with me when travelling because it's an easy way to carry pills, and make sure I don't forget to take anything while on the go. Assuming it's like mine, the container for each day has a flat lid on the top, that flips up from front to back, revealing that days pills underneath. On mine, there are two braille characters on each lid, for some reason. The first is always a braille dot 6, indicating that the next character is capitalized. Braille doesn't have uppercase and lowercase letters; capitalization is indicated by a different character before the capitalized letter. The braille dot 6 is followed by the first letter of the weekday in braille. So perhaps it's the capitalization that's throwing you off?

Getting out the container as I type this, directly above the braille letter on each lid, the letter is also in raised print. So it's probably not the same container, because it's just a single letter, not an abbreviation. Oh well. It could still be that the braille letters are capitalized, though.

edit to add: Can you give us the dots from the $1 on one or more of the braille characters?
aam22 2 points 7y ago
The braille on that pill box makes no sense to me.
Braille reads as follows:
Sun= 1,3,5 then 2
Mon= 1,2,3,4 then 2
Tue= 2,4,5 then 1,2,3,6
Wed= 6 then 1,3,4
Thurs= 1,5 then 1,3,4,6
Fri= is a hot mess that makes no sense to me
Sat= 1,2,5 then 1,3,6

I honestly do not understand the relationship of the braille with the days. Please let me know if you can figure ir out.
novaskyd [OP] 2 points 7y ago
Thank you, this makes sense! I didn't know about the braille dot 6 for capitalization. My box is probably different from yours, since the first dot on each day is not the same.

I found a website for typing in braille characters and tried to copy them, so here is my best guess.

SUN ⠕⠂ (1, 5, 3. then 2.)
MON ⠏⠂ (1, 2, 3, 4. then 2.)
TUE ⠚⠧ (2, 4, 5. then 1, 2, 3, 6.)
WED ⠠⠍ (6. then 1, 3, 4.)
THU ⠑⠭ (1, 5. then 1, 3, 4, 6.)
FRI ⠈⠪⠢ (1. then 2, 4, 6. then 2, 6.)
SAT ⠓⠥ (1, 2, 5. then 1, 3, 6.)

I might be wrong on some of the numbers, but hopefully this helps!

Edit: I was wrong on Tuesday. I fixed it.
fastfinge 3 points 7y ago
No, it really doesn't, I'm afraid. Based on your numbers, we'd get:

SUN: ⠕⠂: o,
MON: ⠏⠂: p,
TUE: ⠚⠧: jv
WED: ⠠⠍: M
THUR: ⠑⠭: ex
FRI: ⠈⠪⠢: ⠈ by itself has no meaning I know of, ⠪ is the contraction for ow in grade 2 Braille, and ⠢ is the contraction for en in grade 2 Braille
SAT: ⠓⠥: hu

Maybe...it's Chinese Braille? Or...someone at the factory decided just to put random symbols on, in the theory nobody would know the difference? Sorry, I'm baffled.
novaskyd [OP] 1 points 7y ago
Haha, that's how I felt looking at it. It doesn't seem to make any sense.

It might be Chinese Braille...I can't find a good resource for translating that, and since I don't know Chinese that makes it even harder. Oh well, it was a long shot. Thanks for helping me!
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