U+17BA "ឺ" Khmer Vowel Sign Yy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+17BA "ឺ" Khmer Vowel Sign Yy is a combining diacritical mark used in the Khmer script, which is the writing system for the Khmer language of Cambodia. This specific vowel sign modifies the inherent vowel of a consonant to produce a long "ɨ" sound, similar to the vowel in the English word "food" but with the lips unrounded and the tongue positioned centrally. It appears as a small, curved diacritic placed above the Khmer consonant it accompanies, and it is an essential component for accurately representing the phonetic distinctions and lexical meanings in written Khmer, particularly in words where a long, close back unrounded vowel is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17BA |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Vowel Sign Yy |
| 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 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x17BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000017BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u17ba |