U+17DB Khmer Currency Symbol Riel
U+17DB was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (1999). It belongs to the block
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 |
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Nº | 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
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