Cartouche

Hieroglyphs had few punctuations and parentheses unlike present languages, but had a custom of enclosing the name of a person of high position, such as a king, with a mark called "cartouche." Cartouche is brailled as following:

Opening sign Ending sign
Glyph Braille Glyph Braille
Cartouche --
O-
OO
 -- --
-O -O
OO OO
--
-O
OO

You put spaces before and after the opening and ending signs of cartouche. How spaces and locational signs are put in cartouche follows the text outside.
The table below is an example of brailling the name of the queen Cleopatra.

Hieroglyph
Sound qrwiwapadra
With directional sign -- -- -O -- -O -- O- O- -- O- -- O- O- -- OO -- O- -- OO -- O- -- O- -- -- --
O- -- -O -O OO -- OO O- -- -O -- O- -- -- O- -- -- -- -O -- OO -- -- -- -O -O
OO -- -- -O O- -O OO O- -- -- -- OO -- -- O- -- -- -- -- -O O- -- -- -- OO OO
Without directional sign -- -- -O -- -O O- O- O- O- OO O- OO O- O- -- -- --
O- -- -O -O OO OO O- -O O- O- -- -O OO -- -- -O -O
OO -- -- -O O- OO O- -- OO O- -- -- O- -- -- OO OO

Marks with shapes and functions similar to cartouche are brailled like cartouche as following:

Opening sign Ending sign
Glyph Braille Glyph Braille
Serekh -- --
O- --
OO O-
 -- --
-- -O
-O OO
High serekh -- --
O- OO
OO --
 -- --
OO -O
-- OO
Low serekh -- --
O- --
OO OO
 -- --
-- -O
OO OO
Fortified
cartouche		 -- --
-O O-
-O OO
 -- --
-O O-
OO O-
Fortified serekh -- -- --
-O O- --
-O OO O-
 -- -- --
-- -O O-
-O OO O-

The ancient Egypt had a region division system called "nome," and they wrote the name of the city over an image of a standard on a street to notate the name of a nome. These glyphs are especially treated as single letters by Unicode, and are encoded in x13220 to x1324F. Although they are not enclosed like cartouche, a nome-opening sign is a cartouche-opening sign followed by a sign for a street, and a nome-ending sign is a (knotless) cartouche-ending sign preceded by a sign for a standard.

Code / Name Glyph Braille Code / Name Glyph Braille
N24 -O OO O-
-O -- OO
-- OO O-
 R12 -O O- OO
-O -O -O
-- OO O-
Street Standard

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