braille-specs

Hungarian braille specifications

The official Hungarian grade 1 and grade 2 braille standard is determined with the Hungarian Braille Committee official in 2012, and latest modification date is 2019. This page always contains the latest official accepted Hungarian braille standards.

This is a link to the official page of the Hungarian Braille Committee.

Braille ábécés könyv (első rész) (második rész)

These documents are available as standard Windows formatted USA BRF embosser files.

Magyar nagy rövid írás szabálykönyv

This document contains the rules of grade 2 contracted braille.

Supplementary material

Braille-írás elnökségi határozatai

This document contains a summary of decisions concerning braille adopted by the presidency of the Hungarian National Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Online verzió (online version)

Magyar Braille írásjelek táblázata

This Excel document contains information on the Hungarian braille code, including new rules that have been established after 2019). The document is divided into the following 11 spreadsheets:

  1. Tartalomjegyzék (Table of contents)

  2. Az irodalmi Braille-írás jelei (Signs of literary braille writing)

  3. Számítástechnikai jelek (Computer signs)

    Contains the 10 computer related characters that have changed since 2019.

  4. Kis rövidírás (“Small” short-writing)

    A second variant of the Hungarian short writing system called “Small” short writing. This is the simplest variant of the two. The more complex variant is described in the Hungarian shorthand rule book (see above).

  5. Matematikai jelek jegyzéke (List of mathematical symbols)

  6. A Braille-kottaírás jelei (Signs of Braille notation)

    Music related symbols.

  7. hun_unicode

  8. Euro_Unicode

  9. US_Unicode

  10. Sakkban használt jelölések (Notations used in chess)

  11. Magyar kártya jelölései (Hungarian card markings)