U+17A5 KHMER INDEPENDENT VOWEL QI

The Unicode character U+17A5, officially named KHMER INDEPENDENT VOWEL QI, 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.