U+178F "ត" Khmer Letter Ta Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+178F "ត" Khmer Letter Ta is a character in the Khmer script used to write the Khmer language of Cambodia, representing an unaspirated voiceless dental stop sound, roughly equivalent to the English "t" sound as in "stop." It occupies the thirty-third position in the modern Khmer consonant ordering and serves as a primary consonant in numerous words, often appearing in its subscript form when combined with other consonants. In the Unicode standard, it is encoded under the Khmer block, positioned among the series of dental consonants that structure the language's syllabic writing system.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ត
HTML Hex Encoding ត
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x9E 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x178F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000178F
C/C++/Java Escape \u178f

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