U+17C9 "៉" Khmer Sign Muusikatoan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
៉
U+17C9 "៉" Khmer Sign Muusikatoan is a combining diacritical mark used in the Khmer script to modify the pronunciation of the consonant it is attached to, specifically indicating that the consonant should be spoken with a reduced or muted vowel sound, often in contexts of syllable tightening or loanword adaptation, and it plays a crucial role in preserving the phonetic integrity of the written language by altering the inherent vowel properties inherent to Khmer consonants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17C9 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Sign Muusikatoan |
| 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 0x9F 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x17C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000017C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u17c9 |