U+17B8 "ី" Khmer Vowel Sign Ii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ី
U+17B8 "ី" Khmer Vowel Sign Ii is a combining diacritical mark used in the Khmer script to represent the long vowel sound "ii." It is placed above a consonant character to modify its inherent vowel, transforming the pronunciation from a default short sound to a longer one. This mark is integral to the orthography of the Khmer language, the official language of Cambodia, and helps distinguish word meanings and grammatical forms through vowel length.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17B8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Vowel Sign Ii |
| 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 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x17B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000017B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u17b8 |