U+17B5 "឵" Khmer Vowel Inherent Aa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
឵
U+17B5 "឵" Khmer Vowel Inherent Aa is a combining mark used in the Khmer script to explicitly indicate the inherent vowel sound /aa/ that is already present by default in a consonant character. Unlike other Khmer vowel signs that visually attach to a consonant to alter its inherent vowel, this character functions as a visible diacritical marker, often applied for phonetic clarity, transliteration, or linguistic documentation to emphasize that a consonant carries its natural long vowel sound without modification.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17B5 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Vowel Inherent Aa |
| 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 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x17B5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000017B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u17b5 |