U+178B "ឋ" Khmer Letter Ttha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+178B "ឋ" Khmer Letter Ttha is a consonant in the Khmer script, which is used to write the Khmer language, the official language of Cambodia. It represents the aspirated retroflex stop sound /tʰ/, similar to the 't' sound in the English word "tip" but with a burst of air and a slightly curled-back tongue. This letter is part of the standard set of Khmer orthography and appears in historical and modern texts, often functioning as a component in syllables when combined with subscript vowel signs.

General Properties

Code Point U+178B
Version Added 3.0
Name Khmer Letter Ttha
Block Khmer
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ឋ
HTML Hex Encoding ឋ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x9E 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x178B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000178B
C/C++/Java Escape \u178b

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