U+1796 "ព" Khmer Letter Po Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ព
U+1796 "ព" Khmer Letter Po is a character in the Khmer script, used to represent the voiceless bilabial plosive sound /p/ and also functions as a consonant in the Khmer language spoken in Cambodia. It belongs to the Khmer block of Unicode and appears as a distinctive curved symbol in written text, where it can serve as an independent consonant or combine with other characters to form syllables. This character is notable for its role in representing the sound of the letter "p" in Khmer orthography, and it is encoded at the hexadecimal code point 1796 within the Unicode Standard's comprehensive encoding of the world's writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1796 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Letter Po |
| Block | Khmer |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ព |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ព |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9E 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1796 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001796 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1796 |