U+17CC "៌" Khmer Sign Robat Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+17CC "៌" Khmer Sign Robat is a diacritical mark used in the Khmer script to indicate that a consonant is to be pronounced without its inherent vowel, effectively functioning as a subscript or stack sign when attached to a consonant that follows a consonant cluster, or in certain contexts to modify the sound of a base character. It is part of the Khmer block in Unicode and is primarily employed in older or formal orthography, including in transliterations of Pali and Sanskrit texts, where it helps represent complex syllable structures by suppressing the vowel sound of the consonant it accompanies, though its usage has become less common in modern standard Khmer writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+17CC
Version Added 3.0
Name Khmer Sign Robat
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 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x17CC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000017CC
C/C++/Java Escape \u17cc

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Khmer
Script Extensions Khmer
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant Succeeding Repha
Indic Positional Category Top
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Diacritic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend