U+1783 "ឃ" Khmer Letter Kho Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1783 "ឃ" Khmer Letter Kho is a glyph representing the aspirated voiceless velar stop consonant sound, roughly equivalent to the "kh" sound in English. It belongs to the Khmer script, which is used to write the Khmer language of Cambodia, and is the fifth letter of its alphabet following the unaspirated "ក" (Ka). As a component of the syllable-based writing system, "ឃ" serves both as an independent consonant and as a subscript form when combined with other characters in complex cluster formations, and it is integral to the spelling and pronunciation of numerous Cambodian words, including those in historical and religious texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+1783
Version Added 3.0
Name Khmer Letter Kho
Block Khmer
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ឃ
HTML Hex Encoding ឃ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x9E 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1783
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001783
C/C++/Java Escape \u1783

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Khmer
Script Extensions Khmer
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter