U+17BB "ុ" Khmer Vowel Sign U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+17BB "ុ" Khmer Vowel Sign U is a combining diacritical mark used in the Khmer script to represent a short vowel sound, typically transcribed as "u" in Romanization. It is placed beneath a consonant character to modify its inherent vowel, creating syllables such as "ku" or "tun" in the Khmer language, which is the official language of Cambodia. This vowel sign is integral to the orthography of Khmer, where vowels are written as dependent marks around the base consonant, and it appears in numerous common words and texts in Cambodian writing systems.
General Properties
Code Point
U+17BB
Name
Khmer Vowel Sign U
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ុ
HTML Hex Encoding
ុ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x9E 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding
0x17BB
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000017BB
C/C++/Java Escape
\u17bb
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Khmer