U+179D "ឝ" Khmer Letter Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ឝ
U+179D "ឝ" Khmer Letter Sha is a character in the Khmer script that historically represents a voiceless palatal fricative sound, analogous to the "sh" in English, but it is now considered obsolete in modern standard Khmer and primarily appears in historical or religious texts, particularly those from the pre-Angkorian and Angkorian periods.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+179D |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Letter Sha |
| Block | Khmer |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ឝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ឝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9E 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x179D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000179D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u179d |