U+1780 "ក" Khmer Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ក
U+1780 "ក" Khmer Letter Ka is the first consonant in the Khmer script, representing the unaspirated velar stop sound /kɑː/. It is an independent letter used as a fundamental building block for writing the Khmer language, the official language of Cambodia. This character belongs to the Khmer Unicode block and serves as a base form that can be modified with various diacritics and subscript forms to represent different vowel sounds and consonant clusters. Its simple, distinct shape makes it one of the most recognizable characters in the Khmer alphabet, often appearing in educational materials and basic vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1780 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Letter Ka |
| Block | Khmer |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ក |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ក |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9E 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1780 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001780 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1780 |