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U+17A4, ឤ
KHMER INDEPENDENT VOWEL QAA

[U+17A3]
Khmer
[U+17A5]

Khmer

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Letter

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អា (ʼaa)

  1. Deprecated independent vowel, no longer used. Now (ʼɑɑ) +‎ (), or អា (ʼaa), is used instead.

Usage notes

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This independent vowel and the syllable អា (ʼaa) look identical. After the Unicode alphabet was used for a few years, it became clear that having two separate but visually identical letters was confusing and led to a lot of misspellings. It was decided that the symbol អា (ʼaa) should be used for both the syllable and the vowel.