U+17D8 "៘" Khmer Sign Beyyal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
៘
U+17D8 "៘" Khmer Sign Beyyal is a visual punctuation mark used in the Khmer script to indicate the lengthening or prolongation of a vowel or syllable, often functioning similarly to an elongation dash in written Khmer.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17D8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Sign Beyyal |
| Block | Khmer |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ៘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ៘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9F 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x17D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000017D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u17d8 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Break After |
| Script | Khmer |
| Script Extensions | Khmer |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |