U+179D "ឝ" Khmer Letter Sha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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