បុកជើង

Khmer

Etymology

បុក (bok, “to collide”) +‎ ជើង (cəəng, “foot”)

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic បុកជើង pukjoeṅ WT romanisation bok cəəng (standard) IPA(key) /ɓok ˈcəːŋ/

Noun

បុកជើង • (bok cəəng)

1. a diacritic consisting of a vertical mark (ុ) written under a consonant, used in place of the diacritics ត្រីសព្ទ ( ៊) and មូសិកទន្ត ( ៉) if they clash with superscript vowels. It is identical to the dependent vowel ុ ([o], [u]). For example, ស៊ី is written instead of ស៊ + ី.

Synonyms

• ក្បៀសក្រោម (kbiəh kraom)