U+17A0 "ហ" Khmer Letter Ha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+17A0 "ហ" Khmer Letter Ha is a character in the Khmer script used to represent the voiceless glottal fricative sound /h/ in the Khmer language, most commonly as an initial consonant in syllables. It appears in the shape of a distinct circular form with a small upper loop, and when combined with various subscript diacritics, it can also modify the vowel or final consonant of a syllable. This letter is part of the standard set of Khmer alphabetic characters encoded in Unicode version 3.0 and later, ensuring its proper digital representation across modern text systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+17A0
Version Added 3.0
Name Khmer Letter Ha
Block Khmer
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ហ
HTML Hex Encoding ហ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x9E 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x17A0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000017A0
C/C++/Java Escape \u17a0

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