U+17F8 "៸" Khmer Symbol Lek Attak Pram-Bei Unicode Character

U+17F8 "៸" Khmer Symbol Lek Attak Pram-Bei is a special diacritic mark used in the Khmer script to indicate that a numerical digit should be read with an altered value, specifically representing the number three in a particular numeric context. This symbol is part of the Khmer lunar calendar and traditional mathematical systems, where it modifies a base digit to denote a higher or shifted numerical unit. Its use is primarily historical and liturgical, appearing in manuscripts and inscriptions to denote calculated dates or counts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17F8
Version Added	4.0
Name	Khmer Symbol Lek Attak Pram-Bei
Block	Khmer
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	៸
HTML Hex Encoding	៸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0x9F 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x17F8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000017F8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u17f8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	8
Line Break	Alphabetic
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