U+17B7 "ិ" Khmer Vowel Sign I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ិ
U+17B7 "ិ" Khmer Vowel Sign I is a combining mark used in the Khmer script to represent the short vowel sound "i" as in the English word "sit". It is written as a diacritic that appears above the consonant it modifies, and it is distinct from other Khmer vowel signs, such as the long vowel sign "ី" (U+17B8). This character is essential for accurately spelling and pronouncing words in the Khmer language, which is the official language of Cambodia, and it is categorized under the Unicode block for Khmer, which ranges from U+1780 to U+17FF.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17B7 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Vowel Sign I |
| 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 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x17B7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000017B7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u17b7 |