U+1786 "ឆ" Khmer Letter Cha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ឆ
U+1786 "ឆ" Khmer Letter Cha is a character in the Khmer script representing the aspirated voiceless palatal plosive sound, resembling the "ch" in the English word "change." It is the sixth consonant in the standard Khmer consonant ordering and is used in the Khmer language, primarily spoken in Cambodia, where it functions as a fundamental building block for writing words and is often combined with subscript vowel markers to form syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1786 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Letter Cha |
| Block | Khmer |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ឆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ឆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9E 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1786 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001786 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1786 |