U+17B4 "឴" Khmer Vowel Inherent Aq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
឴
U+17B4 "឴" Khmer Vowel Inherent Aq is a mark used in the Khmer script to explicitly denote the inherent vowel sound /ɑ/ (often transliterated as "a" or "â") that is normally unwritten when a consonant stands alone. This character is part of the Khmer block and serves a specific orthographic purpose, allowing writers to indicate the default vowel pronunciation in cases where it might be ambiguous or where the standard inherent vowel is not contextually clear. It is considered a combining character and is not used in everyday modern Khmer but rather in specialized linguistic or historical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17B4 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Vowel Inherent Aq |
| Block | Khmer |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ឴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ឴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9E 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x17B4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000017B4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u17b4 |