Cantonese Braille

Cantonese Braille
Script type
LanguagesCantonese
Related scripts
Parent systems
Braille
  • Cantonese Braille
Braille map at Central Pier 3, Hong Kong, with English and Cantonese Braille text.

Cantonese Braille (Chinese: 粵語點字) is a braille script used to write Cantonese in Hong Kong and Macau. It is locally referred to as tim chi (點字, dim2zi6) 'dot characters' or more commonly but ambiguously tuk chi (凸字, dat6zi6) 'raised characters'. Although Cantonese is written in Chinese characters, Cantonese Braille is purely phonetic, with punctuation, digits and Latin letters from the original Braille. It can be mixed with English text.