U+179F KHMER LETTER SA

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Decimal / Nº
6047
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+179F, officially named KHMER LETTER SA, was introduced in Unicode version 3.0. It is part of the Khmer block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Khmr script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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6047 Copied!
UTF-8 E1 9E 9F Copied!
UTF-16 17 9F Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 17 9F Copied!
URL-Quoted %E1%9E%9F Copied!
HTML hex reference ស Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'179F' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u179F Copied!
C and C++ \u179f Copied!
C# \u179f Copied!
CSS \00179F Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(6047) Copied!
Go \u179f Copied!
JavaScript \u179F Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{179f} Copied!
JSON \u179F Copied!
Java \u179F Copied!
Lua \u{179F} Copied!
Matlab char(6047) Copied!
Perl \x{179F} Copied!
PHP \u{179f} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\179F' Copied!
PowerShell `u{179F} Copied!
Python \u179f Copied!
Ruby \u{179f} Copied!
Rust \u{179f} Copied!