U+17DC "ៜ" Khmer Sign Avakrahasanya Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+17DC "ៜ" Khmer Sign Avakrahasanya is a diacritical mark used in the Khmer script to indicate the omission of a vowel or a consonant, similar to an apostrophe or a sign of elision, often employed in poetic or formal writing to shorten syllables or words that would otherwise be written in full, though it is not commonly used in everyday modern Khmer language.

General Properties

Code Point U+17DC
Version Added 3.0
Name Khmer Sign Avakrahasanya
Block Khmer
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ៜ
HTML Hex Encoding ៜ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x9F 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x17DC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000017DC
C/C++/Java Escape \u17dc

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 Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Khmer
Script Extensions Khmer
Indic Syllabic Category Avagraha
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter