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Khmer is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Khmer, or Cambodian, language.

The Khmer alphabet or Khmer script (IPA: ) is an abugida, which means that it's a consonant-driven script. It's used to write the Khmer language (the official language of Cambodia). Apart from that, the script is applied for Pali in the Buddhist liturgy of Cambodia and Thailand.

The origins of Khmer go back to the Pallava script, which it was adopted from. Pallava is a variant of the Grantha alphabet descended from the Brahmi script, which was used in southern India and South East Asia during the 5th and 6th centuries AD. I know, this chain seems complicated, but doesn't all linguistics? Anyway, the oldest Khmer inscription was found at Angkor Borei District in Takéo Province south of Phnom Penh and it dates back to 611.

As for the modern Khmer script, it differs a lot from its precedent forms on the inscriptions of the Angkor ruins. The 泰文0E00–0E7F and 老挝文0E80–0EFF scripts have descended from an older form of the Khmer script.

Khmer is written from left to right. Words within one sentence or phrase usually come together with no spaces between them. Consonant clusters within a word are 「stacked」, with the second (and occasionally third) consonant being written in reduced form under the main consonant. Originally there were 35 consonant characters, but modern Khmer uses only 33. Each character in fact represents a consonant sound together with an inherent vowel – either â or ô.

You might remember that Khmer is an abugida. That's why vowel sounds are more commonly represented as dependent vowels – additional marks accompanying a consonant character, and indicating what vowel sound is to be pronounced after that consonant (or consonant cluster). Most dependent vowels have two different pronunciations, depending in most cases on the inherent vowel of the consonant to which they are added. In some positions, a consonant written with no dependent vowel is taken to be followed by the sound of its inherent vowel.

Needless to say, there are also a number of diacritics used to indicate further modifications in pronunciation. The script also includes its own numerals and punctuation marks.

属性

范围	1780–17FF
字符	128

角色列表

字符表

1760–177F 塔格班瓦字母 1800–18AF 蒙古文

0 基本多文種平面

1 多文種補充平面

2 表意文字補充平面

3 表意文字第三平面

4-13：未使用

14 特別用途補充平面

15 保留作為私人使用區（A區）

16 保留作為私人使用區（B區）

高棉文

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角色列表

輔音

已棄用的獨立元音音譯

獨立元音

固有元音

相關元音符號

兩部分相依元音符號

相關元音符號

兩部分相依元音符號

各種標誌

輔音轉換器

各種標誌

農曆標誌

各種標誌

貨幣符號

各種標誌

位數

占卜知識的數字符號

字符表

0 基本多文種平面

1 多文種補充平面

2 表意文字補充平面

3 表意文字第三平面

4-13：未使用

14 特別用途補充平面

15 保留作為私人使用區（A區）

16 保留作為私人使用區（B區）