U+17DB "៛" Khmer Currency Symbol Riel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+17DB "៛" Khmer Currency Symbol Riel is the official typographic symbol for the riel, the national currency of Cambodia, and is derived from the Khmer script's letter for "ra" combined with a decorative slash. Introduced in the Unicode Standard to support digital text in the Khmer language, this symbol appears in financial contexts, price tags, and official documents throughout Cambodia. Its design reflects traditional Khmer calligraphy, and it is encoded in the Khmer block of Unicode to ensure consistent representation across different computing platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17DB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Currency Symbol Riel |
| Block | Khmer |
| General Category | Currency Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Terminator |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ៛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ៛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9F 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x17DB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000017DB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u17db |
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 | Prefix Numeric |
| 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 |