U+178A "ដ" Khmer Letter Da Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+178A "ដ" Khmer Letter Da is a character from the Khmer script, used primarily for writing the Khmer language of Cambodia, where it represents the unvoiced, unaspirated dental stop sound /d/. This letter is part of the first series of consonants in the Khmer alphabet and, depending on its position in a syllable and the inherent vowel it carries, can modify the pronunciation of surrounding vowels. Its visual form consists of a distinctive curling top loop and a vertical stem, which are characteristic features of the Khmer script's calligraphic tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+178A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Letter Da |
| Block | Khmer |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ដ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ដ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9E 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x178A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000178A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u178a |