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Khmer Alphabet

The letters and characters of Khmer written in the Khmer script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 15,186,693 people read or write it across 1 country.

14Fonts cover the standard set
72Standard characters
15,186,693People
1Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Khmer — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.

Additional Characters

Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

-U+002D‑U+2011,U+002C៖U+17D6!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E។U+17D4៕U+17D5‘U+2018’U+2019"U+0022“U+201C”U+201D(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D{U+007B}U+007D៙U+17D9៚U+17DA

Where Khmer is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Khmer in the Khmer script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.

50% or more of the country 10–50% 1–10% under 1% not listed for this language

Estimated readers — share of each country's population (CLDR).

CountryEstimated readersShare of population
Cambodia 15,186,693 89%

Khmer — facts

Font coverage 14 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 72 standard characters; 2 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026.
Script Khmer
Unicode blocks Basic Latin, Khmer, General Punctuation
People About 15,186,693 people read or write Khmer in the Khmer script — mostly in Cambodia.

Data: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters (CLDR 48.2.0) and CLDR territory population data. Font counts: snapshot of 21 October 2026.