U+17BB "ុ" Khmer Vowel Sign U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+17BB "ុ" Khmer Vowel Sign U is a combining diacritical mark used in the Khmer script to represent a short vowel sound, typically transcribed as "u" in Romanization. It is placed beneath a consonant character to modify its inherent vowel, creating syllables such as "ku" or "tun" in the Khmer language, which is the official language of Cambodia. This vowel sign is integral to the orthography of Khmer, where vowels are written as dependent marks around the base consonant, and it appears in numerous common words and texts in Cambodian writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17BB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Vowel Sign U |
| 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 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x17BB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000017BB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u17bb |