What ៏ means
It marks a one-letter word, not a final consonant.
Type it after the consonant, or after the vowel if one is written; Khmer shaping then puts it above the base. It never stands alone. The contrast helps: ៎ Kakabat marks an exclamation, while ៑ Viriam kills the built-in vowel.
In speech it can add stress to a short command; a 2016 description of Khmer spelling notes that stressed use and says it is often left unwritten. Unicode encoded the sign in 1999, which dates computer support, not the mark itself.
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Who writes ៏
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ៏ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ៏
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- ahsda · ahsdaa · asda · diacritic · stress · emphasis · vowel · consonant
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.