U+1788 "ឈ" Khmer Letter Cho Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ឈ
U+1788 "ឈ" Khmer Letter Cho is the eighth consonant in the Khmer script, representing the aspirated voiceless palatal stop sound "chh" as in the English word "church." This character is used in the Cambodian language to form words and is written with a unique, curved shape that descends below the baseline, distinguishing it from other similar letters. In the Khmer alphabet, it belongs to the "ch" group of consonants and often appears in both native Khmer vocabulary and loanwords from Pali and Sanskrit, playing a crucial role in the language's phonetic system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1788 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Letter Cho |
| Block | Khmer |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ឈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ឈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9E 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1788 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001788 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1788 |