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Glyph for U+17DB
Source: Noto Sans Khmer

U+17DB Khmer Currency Symbol Riel

U+17DB was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (1999). It belongs to the block U+1780 to U+17FF Khmer in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Currency Symbol and is mainly used in the Khmer script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as European Terminator and is not mirrored. In text U+17DB behaves as Prefix Numeric regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The riel (; Khmer: រៀល, romanized: riĕl [riəl]; sign: ; code: KHR) is the currency of Cambodia. There have been two distinct riel, the first issued between 1953 and May 1975. Between 1975 and 1980, the country had no monetary system. A second currency, also named "riel", has been issued since 20 March 1980. Since the 1990s, citizens have used the riel alongside the U.S. dollar at the well-known rate of 4,000 KHR/USD for retail payments.

Popular belief suggests that the name of the currency comes from the Mekong river fish, the riĕl ("small fish" in Khmer). It is more likely that the name derives from the high silver content Spanish-American dollar whose value is eight reales, a coin widely used for international trade in Asia and the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries.

Representations

System Representation
6107
UTF-8 E1 9F 9B
UTF-16 17 DB
UTF-32 00 00 17 DB
URL-Quoted %E1%9F%9B
HTML hex reference ៛
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ៛

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 3.0 (1999)
Unicode Name KHMER CURRENCY SYMBOL RIEL
Unicode 1 Name
Block Khmer
General Category Currency Symbol
Script Khmer
Bidirectional Category European Terminator
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+17DB Khmer Currency Symbol Riel
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+17DB Khmer Currency Symbol Riel
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+17DB Khmer Currency Symbol Riel
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+17DB Khmer Currency Symbol Riel
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+17DB Khmer Currency Symbol Riel
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+17DB Khmer Currency Symbol Riel
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+17DB Khmer Currency Symbol Riel
Case Folding Glyph for U+17DB Khmer Currency Symbol Riel
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+17DB Khmer Currency Symbol Riel
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+17DB Khmer Currency Symbol Riel
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+17DB Khmer Currency Symbol Riel
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+17DB Khmer Currency Symbol Riel
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Prefix Numeric
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+17DB Khmer Currency Symbol Riel
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R