Khmer word senses marked with topical category "Khmer diacritical marks"

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Total 16 word senses

• ា (Character) The dependent vowel [aː] (a-series), [iə] (o-series).
• ិ (Character) The dependent vowel [ə] (a-series), [ɨ] (o-series).
• ី (Character) The dependent vowel [əi] (a-series), [iː] (o-series).
• ុ (Character) The "conversion", which is 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])
• ំ (Character) The anusvara, which nasalizes the inherent vowels and some of the dependent vowels), the sign used to represent a syllable-final 'm.' See also និគ្គហិត (nikkea’het).
• ះ (Character) The visarga, which represents a syllable-final [h] sound. See also រះមុខ (rĕəh muk).
• ៈ (Character) The "two dots", which represents the inherent vowel plus glottal stop /a’/ (after A-series consonants) or /ea’/ plus glottal stop (after O-series consonants) in words borrowed from Sanskrit and Pali. See also យុគលពិន្ទុ (yukŭəl pintuʼ).
• ៉ (Character) The "conversion", which is written above an O-series consonant (ង, ញ, ម, យ, រ, វ) which converts it to the A-series. It is also used with ប (bɑɑ) to convert it to ប៉ (pɑɑ). See also មូសិកទន្ត (muusekaʼtŏən).
• ៊ (Character) The "conversion", which is written above an A-series consonant (ប, ស, ហ, អ) which converts it to the O-series. See also ត្រីសព្ទ (trəysap).
• ់ (Character) A small vertical mark written above the final consonant of a syllable, indicating shortening (and corresponding change in quality) of certain vowels. See also បន្តក់ (bɑɑbɑntɑk).
• ៌ (Character) A diacritical mark which indicates an orthographic ‘r’ (repha) in some words borrowed from Sanskrit (in Devanagari, repha appears as the eyelash mark above र्क, or rka). It originally represented an /r/ sound that preceded the base consonant, but in Khmer, in most cases, the consonant above which it appears, and the diacritic itself, are not pronounced. See also របាទ (rɔɔrɔbaat).
• ៍ (Character) The killer, which suppresses—or kills—the letter over which it is written, causing it to be silent. See also ទណ្ឌឃាដ (tŏəndĕəʼkhiət).
• ៎ (Character) The crow's foot or kakabat, used in writing to indicate the rising intonation of an exclamation or interjection; often placed on particles such as ណា៎ (naa), ហ្ន៎ (nɑɑ), នែ៎ (nɛɛ), and the feminine response ចាស៎ (caah). See also កាកបាទ (kakkɑbaat).
• ៏ (Character) The "number eight", which used to specify that a consonant is to be pronounced with its inherent vowel, rather than as a final consonant (in some cases where this might be ambiguous). Usually placed on ក, ដ, ហ and ន. See also អស្តា (ʼahsdaa).
• ័ (Character) The sanhyoŭk sannha, which is used in some Sanskrit and Pali loanwords (although alternative spellings usually exist); it is written above a consonant to represent the vowels /a/, /oa/, /ɔə/, /ea/. When it occurs with O-series consonants and a following យ, it is pronounced /e/. See also សំយោគសញ្ញា (sangyook saññaa).
• ៑ (Character) The virama, which is now mostly obsolete. It is used in Sanskrit words to suppress the inherent vowel of a letter. See also វិរាម (viriəm).

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