U+179A "រ" Khmer Letter Ro Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
រ
U+179A "រ" Khmer Letter Ro is the twenty-ninth symbol in the Khmer script, representing the consonant sound "r" as pronounced in the Khmer language of Cambodia. It is used extensively in written Khmer for forming words and appears in both standard and subscript forms, the latter known as a subscript consonant or "reah" when combined with other consonants. This character plays a fundamental role in Khmer orthography, appearing in common words such as “រក” (rok, meaning “to search”) and “មរ” (môr, meaning “dead” or “death”), and its rounded shape is distinctive within the script’s visual system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+179A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Letter Ro |
| Block | Khmer |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | រ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | រ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9E 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x179A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000179A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u179a |