U+17AE "ឮ" Khmer Independent Vowel Lyy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ឮ
U+17AE "ឮ" Khmer Independent Vowel Lyy is a distinct glyph used in the Khmer script to represent the vowel sound often transcribed as "lyy" or "lɨɨ," functioning as an independent vowel that does not require a consonant base to form a syllable. Typically appearing in loanwords or specific lexical contexts within the Khmer language, it visually resembles a stylized loop or curl and is part of the broader set of Khmer independent vowels that encode phonetic values without relying on consonant-subscript combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17AE |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Independent Vowel Lyy |
| Block | Khmer |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ឮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ឮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9E 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x17AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000017AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u17ae |