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U+17A3, ឣ
KHMER INDEPENDENT VOWEL QAQ

[U+17A2]
Khmer
[U+17A4]

Khmer

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Letter

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(ʼâ)

  1. Deprecated independent vowel, no longer used. Use (ʼɑɑ) instead.

Usage notes

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The independent vowel (ʼâ) and the consonant (ʼɑɑ) 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 (ʼɑɑ) should be used for both the consonant and the vowel.