Braille Translator
Convert English letters and digits to Grade 1 Unicode Braille you can copy and paste anywhere — or decode Braille back to English. Free, instant.
How braille works
Each braille character is a 2×3 grid of raised dots. With six dots there are 64 possible patterns — enough for the alphabet, digits, a number indicator, and basic punctuation. The translator below maps each English letter to its standard Grade 1 cell and outputs the corresponding Unicode code point in the U+2800 block, so the result is real text you can paste anywhere Unicode is supported.
Grade 1 vs Grade 2
The version here is Grade 1: one letter in, one cell out, no abbreviations. Fluent braille readers actually use Grade 2, which shortens common words with contractions — for example, a single cell stands for “the”, another for “and”. Grade 2 needs a full language model and a dictionary of word-boundary rules, which is well beyond what fits in a browser tool. Grade 1 is the right choice for learning, puzzles, and visual effects; for accessibility production you would use a dedicated library.
Try more codec tools
For more text encoders, try the Morse code translator, the Binary translator, or the Caesar cipher.