What ៚ means
It marks the formal end of a Khmer text.
It traditionally ends Pali verses and Khmer poetry or religious writing. Pali is a language used in Buddhist scripture. The mark can also close a whole book or treatise.
A Khmer dictionary tentatively links this custom to Sri Lankan punctuation at Pali stanza endings. A study of Khmer manuscripts from 1843–1868 records eight punctuation marks but does not identify this one. A Khmer punctuation guide updated in June 2024 reports that some writers and newspapers retain it as heritage.
Formal, literary, or religious; in an ordinary message, it reads as a deliberate traditional flourish.
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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 ៚
- Also called
- koomoot · koomut · koŭmutr
- Search it as
- Khmer end mark
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
៚\17DACodes and encoding1 code points
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