What ៑ means
It is a vowel-killer mark: it cancels a consonant’s normally implied vowel.
Khmer script descends from Brahmi, an ancient South Asian writing system, through Pallava forms. Old Khmer used virama; Middle Khmer dropped it from ordinary spelling.
Technical; it usually signals Sanskrit or older Khmer spelling.
Who writes ៑
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does Khmer virama look detached?
It is a combining mark. In fonts that display marks without a base, it may appear with a dotted circle; the circle is a placeholder.
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How to type or find ៑
- Search it as
- Khmer virama · Khmer viriam · Khmer coeng · vowel killer
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
៑
HTML hex
៑
CSS content
content: "\17D1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%9F%91
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.