Letter 7 of 26
The letter G in braille
G is dots 1, 2, 4 and 5.
Dots 1-2-4-5
Unicode ⠛ — U+281B
How to recognise it
Dots 1, 2, 4 and 5 fill the top two rows completely — a solid square. It is one of the easiest cells to recognise by touch because there is no gap to locate.
How this cell is built
G is one of the ten base shapes of decade 1, built from dots 1, 2, 4 and 5 only. Every letter from k onwards is one of these ten with extra dots added.
Easily confused with
These letters differ from G by a single dot, which is where reading errors actually happen. Drill them against each other rather than in alphabetical order.
Practice words
Each word below starts with G, written in Grade 1 so every letter has its own cell.
go
girl
green
Standing alone, G means “go”. Inside a longer word it is just the letter g. See the contraction reference for the full list.