Khmer (Unicode block)

For Khmer lunar date symbols, see Khmer Symbols (Unicode block).

Khmer
Range	U+1780..U+17FF (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Khmer
Major alphabets	Khmer
Assigned	114 code points
Unused	14 reserved code points 2 deprecated
Unicode version history
3.0 (1999)	103 (+103)
4.0 (2003)	114 (+11)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Graphic board for the Unicode block Khmer

Khmer is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Khmer (Cambodian) language. For details of the characters, see Khmer alphabet – Unicode.

Block

Khmer^[1]^[2]^[3] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+178x

ក

ខ

គ

ឃ

ង

ច

ឆ

ជ

ឈ

ញ

ដ

ឋ

ឌ

ឍ

ណ

ត

U+179x

ថ

ទ

ធ

ន

ប

ផ

ព

ភ

ម

យ

រ

ល

វ

ឝ

ឞ

ស

U+17Ax

ហ

ឡ

អ

ឣ

ឤ

ឥ

ឦ

ឧ

ឨ

ឩ

ឪ

ឫ

ឬ

ឭ

ឮ

ឯ

U+17Bx

ឰ

ឱ

ឲ

ឳ

KIV  AQ

KIV  AA

ា

ិ

ី

ឹ

ឺ

ុ

ូ

ួ

ើ

ឿ

U+17Cx

ៀ

េ

ែ

ៃ

ោ

ៅ

ំ

ះ

ៈ

៉

៊

់

៌

៍

៎

៏

U+17Dx

័

៑

្

៓

។

៕

៖

ៗ

៘

៙

៚

៛

ៜ

៝

U+17Ex

០

១

២

៣

៤

៥

៦

៧

៨

៩

U+17Fx

៰

៱

៲

៳

៴

៵

៶

៷

៸

៹

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points 3.^ U+17A3 and U+17A4 are deprecated as of Unicode versions 4.0 and 5.2 respectively

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Khmer block:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
3.0	U+1780..17DC, 17E0..17E9	103	L2/97-040	N1524	Everson, Michael (1997-01-22), Proposal for encoding the Khmer script in ISO 10646
			L2/97-194		Bauhahn, Maurice (1997-07-30), Proposal for Encoding of the Khmer Script
			L2/97-255R		Aliprand, Joan (1997-12-03), "Khmer [L2/194]", Approved Minutes – UTC #73 & L2 #170 joint meeting, Palo Alto, CA – August 4-5, 1997
			L2/98-039		Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-02-24), "3.A.2. Khmer", Preliminary Minutes - UTC #74 & L2 #171, Mountain View, CA - December 5, 1997
			L2/98-101	N1729	Ad-hoc report on Burmese and Khmer, 1998-03-18
			L2/98-175	N1779	Text for PDAM registration and consideration ballot for ISO 10646-1 Amendment 25 - Khmer, 1998-05-11
				N1825	Paterson, Bruce (1998-05-11), PDAM25 - Khmer cover sheet
				N1825.1	Paterson, Bruce (1998-05-11), PDAM25 - Khmer full text
			L2/98-158		Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-05-26), "Khmer", Draft Minutes – UTC #76 & NCITS Subgroup L2 #173 joint meeting, Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania, April 20-22, 1998
			L2/98-286	N1703	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.17", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
			L2/98-359	N1856	Sato, T. K. (1998-08-21), Addition of Rial sign on ISO/IEC 10646-1
			L2/98-324	N1901	ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 25, AMENDMENT 25: Khmer, 1998-10-23
			L2/98-341		Disposition of comments report on SC2 N3105, ISO 10646 Amd. 25: Khmer, 1998-10-23
				N1911	Paterson, Bruce; Everson, Michael (1998-10-23), Text of FPDAM 25 - Khmer - SC2 N3201
			L2/99-010	N1903 (pdf, html, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "6.7.8", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
			L2/99-128		Paterson, Bruce (1999-04-14), Text for FDAM ballot ISO/IEC 10646 FDAM #25 - Khmer
			L2/99-232	N2003	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), "6.2.8 FPDAM25 – Khmer script", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15
			L2/00-009	N2149	Sato, T. K. (2000-01-05), Khmer Up-Date
			L2/00-056	N2164	Sato, T. K. (2000-02-23), AMD-25 (Khmer) correction request
			L2/00-109		Suignard, Michel (2000-04-06), Corrections to Khmer character tables in 10646 and Unicode
			L2/00-234	N2203 (rtf, txt)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.1", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
			L2/00-338	N2274	Working Draft of Tables & Character Names for Editorial correction to Khmer for 10646-1:2000, 2000-09-19
			L2/01-307		Whistler, Ken (2001-08-06), Serious bug in Khmer, Myanmar combining classes
			L2/01-308		Hosken, Martin; Whistler, Ken (2001-08-08), Serious bug in Khmer, Myanmar combining classes
			L2/01-310		McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2001-08-12), Khmer issues on the Horizon
			L2/01-372	N2380	Cambodian official objection to the existing Khmer block in UCS, 2001-10-08
			L2/01-382	N2385	Bauhahn, Maurice; Everson, Michael (2001-10-11), Response to Cambodian official objection to Khmer block (N2380)
			L2/01-421	N2380R	Cambodian official objection to the existing Khmer block in UCS, 2001-10-14
			L2/01-394		Phu, Leewood (2001-10-17), Letter from Cambodia to JTC 1 Chairman Regarding Khmer Character Encoding in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/01-443	N2406	Response to WG2 Document N2385, 2001-10-11, 2001-11-04
			L2/01-476		Karlsson, Kent (2001-12-19), Ordering rules for Khmer
			L2/02-016		Whistler, Ken (2002-01-14), Character Properties for repetition marks
			L2/02-017		Whistler, Ken (2002-01-14), Character Properties for avagrahas, etc.
			L2/02-073		Davis, Mark (2002-02-08), Cambodian
			L2/02-097		Chea, Sok Huor; Lao, Kim Leang; Harada, Shiro; Klein, Norbert (2002-02-13), Proposal to deprecate Khmer characters
			L2/02-131	N2412	Everson, Michael (2002-03-31), On the suitability of the COENG encoding model for Khmer
			L2/02-154	N2403	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-04-22), "5.1", Draft minutes of WG 2 meeting 41, Hotel Phoenix, Singapore, 2001-10-15/19
			L2/02-196	N2458	Harada, Shiro (2002-05-03), On the Unsuitability of "COENG encoding model" for Khmer
			L2/02-211	N2459	Cambodian stance regarding Khmer code table in Unicode 3.2, 2002-05-14
				N2459R	Revised Cambodian stance regarding Khmer code table in Unicode, 2002-05-20
			L2/02-166R2		Moore, Lisa (2002-08-09), "Consensus 91-C5", UTC #91 Minutes, Leave the ROBAT as it is in the standard today (do not deprecate) and document its use appropriately.
			L2/02-070		Moore, Lisa (2002-08-26), "Consensus 90-C1, Consensus 90-C2, and Motion 90-M9", Minutes for UTC #90
			L2/03-430		Davis, Mark (2003-11-10), Problem with Khmer / ZWJ / ZWNJ
				N2956	Freytag, Asmus (2005-08-12), "Representative glyphs for U+17D2 and U+10A3F", Unicode Consortium Liaison Report for WG2 Meeting #47
			L2/05-180		Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), "Consensus 104-C12", UTC #104 Minutes, Change the representative glyphs for Kharoshthi U+10A3F and Khmer U+17D2 to be the same as U+17D2, but with both enclosed in a dashed box...
				N2953 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "M47.16 (Miscellaneous glyph defects)", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
			L2/08-287		Davis, Mark (2008-08-04), Public Review Issue #122: Proposal for Additional Deprecated Characters
			L2/08-253R2		Moore, Lisa (2008-08-19), "Consensus 116-C13", UTC #116 Minutes, Change the deprecated property by removing 0340, 0341, 17D3, and adding 0149, 0F77, 0F79, 17A4, 2329, 232A.
			L2/08-328 (html, xls)		Whistler, Ken (2008-10-14), Spreadsheet of Deprecation and Discouragement
			L2/09-234	N3603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.13h", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
			L2/10-416R		Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "Properties of Two Khmer Characters (B.10.3) [U+17B4 and U+17B5]", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
4.0	U+17DD, 17F0..17F9	11	L2/02-083		Nelson, Paul (2001-12-02), Response and Proposal for Khmer Encoding
			L2/02-100		Chea, Sok Huor; Lao, Kim Leang; Harada, Shiro; Klein, Norbert (2002-02-13), Proposal to add missing Khmer characters
			L2/02-070		Moore, Lisa (2002-08-26), "Consensus 90-C23", Minutes for UTC #90
			L2/16-163		Pournader, Roozbeh (2015-05-12), Additions to Indic Syllabic Category for Myanmar and Khmer
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.