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 |