Capital letters in braille
Braille letters are lower case unless marked. The capital sign, a single dot 6 (⠠), goes in front of a capital letter: “Hello” is ⠠⠓⠑⠇⠇⠕.
A capital letter
One dot 6 makes the next letter a capital. Names, days and months, and the start of a sentence all take it: Emma ⠠⠑⠍⠍⠁, Monday ⠠⠍⠕⠝⠙⠁⠽, I ⠠⠊.
A whole word in capitals
Two dot 6 cells (⠠⠠) make the whole word capitals, up to the next space: USA is ⠠⠠⠥⠎⠁, HELLO is ⠠⠠⠓⠑⠇⠇⠕.
Several words in capitals
For three or more words in capitals, Unified English Braille uses the capitals passage: three dot 6 cells (⠠⠠⠠) before the first word, and the capitals terminator, dots 6 and 3 (⠠⠄), after the last. “THANK YOU VERY MUCH” is ⠠⠠⠠⠞⠓⠁⠝⠅ ⠽⠕⠥ ⠧⠑⠗⠽ ⠍⠥⠉⠓⠠⠄.
The capital alphabet
- ⠠⠁Adot 6, then dot 1
- ⠠⠃Bdot 6, then dots 1-2
- ⠠⠉Cdot 6, then dots 1-4
- ⠠⠙Ddot 6, then dots 1-4-5
- ⠠⠑Edot 6, then dots 1-5
- ⠠⠋Fdot 6, then dots 1-2-4
- ⠠⠛Gdot 6, then dots 1-2-4-5
- ⠠⠓Hdot 6, then dots 1-2-5
- ⠠⠊Idot 6, then dots 2-4
- ⠠⠚Jdot 6, then dots 2-4-5
- ⠠⠅Kdot 6, then dots 1-3
- ⠠⠇Ldot 6, then dots 1-2-3
- ⠠⠍Mdot 6, then dots 1-3-4
- ⠠⠝Ndot 6, then dots 1-3-4-5
- ⠠⠕Odot 6, then dots 1-3-5
- ⠠⠏Pdot 6, then dots 1-2-3-4
- ⠠⠟Qdot 6, then dots 1-2-3-4-5
- ⠠⠗Rdot 6, then dots 1-2-3-5
- ⠠⠎Sdot 6, then dots 2-3-4
- ⠠⠞Tdot 6, then dots 2-3-4-5
- ⠠⠥Udot 6, then dots 1-3-6
- ⠠⠧Vdot 6, then dots 1-2-3-6
- ⠠⠺Wdot 6, then dots 2-4-5-6
- ⠠⠭Xdot 6, then dots 1-3-4-6
- ⠠⠽Ydot 6, then dots 1-3-4-5-6
- ⠠⠵Zdot 6, then dots 1-3-5-6
Remember it, don't just look it up
Capitals are one extra dot in front of letters you already know. Braille a Day brings it back tomorrow to answer from memory, then again just before you'd forget. Five minutes a day.