U+1787 "ជ" Khmer Letter Co Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ជ
U+1787 "ជ" Khmer Letter Co is a fundamental consonant in the Khmer script, representing the sound /c/ as in the English "ch" in "church," but with a slight aspiration. As part of the Khmer alphabet, it belongs to the group of consonants that can modify the vowel in a syllable based on its inherent vowel quality, often producing a short, low-register "o" sound when not accompanied by a dependent vowel sign. This character is used in writing the Cambodian language and is also found in historical texts and modern digital communication, serving as a building block for countless words in the Khmer lexicon.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1787 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Letter Co |
| Block | Khmer |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ជ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ជ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9E 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1787 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001787 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1787 |