U+17D0 "័" Khmer Sign Samyok Sannya Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+17D0 "័" Khmer Sign Samyok Sannya is a combining diacritical mark used in the Khmer script to indicate a specific vowel or consonant modification, typically representing a short, inherent vowel sound or serving as a phonetic sign in transliterations and scholarly texts. It appears as a small, curved symbol placed above a consonant character, and its name, "Samyok Sannya," reflects its traditional grammatical function in Khmer orthography, where it helps to alter the pronunciation of the base letter in certain linguistic contexts, particularly in Pali and Sanskrit loanwords.

General Properties

Code Point U+17D0
Version Added 3.0
Name Khmer Sign Samyok Sannya
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 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0x17D0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000017D0
C/C++/Java Escape \u17d0

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 Syllable Modifier
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