All 33 Khmer consonants and the common independent vowels on screen, every vowel sign and the coeng subscript one tap away, as real Unicode.
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# Special Characters
😊 Emoji
✨ Vowels & coeng
🔢 Numbers
Western
Symbols
Works with every appyou love
Ready-Made Khmer Combos
One click to insert — or copy straight to clipboard
How To Use
Three steps. Ten seconds.
Type
Tap a consonant, then a vowel sign from the popup: ក + ា = កា. For a subscript, tap ្ between two consonants: ខ + ្ + ម = ខ្ម.
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Copy
End each sentence with ។ from the popup and add Khmer digits from 123, then press Copy.
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Paste
Paste into Facebook, Telegram, WhatsApp or email as real Unicode Khmer, not a legacy Limon font.
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Khmer Keyboard for Any App
Khmer from this page keeps every coeng stack when pasted, instead of breaking into loose letters.
Snapchat
Snapchat: caption a story in Khmer script instead of Latin letters.
WhatsApp
WhatsApp: send សួស្តីឆ្នាំថ្មី to family in Cambodia from a phone or computer abroad.
Instagram
Instagram: a Khmer bio or caption that displays on every phone, not as legacy-font gibberish.
TikTok
TikTok: write Khmer captions and comments with every subscript in place.
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Khmer has been written for at least 1,400 years. The script developed from the Pallava script of South India, and the oldest dated inscription in Khmer, K. 557/600 from Angkor Borei, was carved in 611 CE. Through the Angkor period the same script covered temple walls across the empire, and it went on to shape the Thai and Lao alphabets. Khmer is written in two main styles: the rounded Aksar Mul, used for titles and inscriptions, and the slanted Aksar Chrieng of everyday handwriting; most modern typefaces use a third, upright style, Aksar Chhor. Guinness World Records lists Khmer as the largest alphabet, with 74 letters (including some no longer in current use); modern Khmer uses 33 of its 35 consonant letters. Khmer was added to Unicode in version 3.0 in 1999, and in 2000 the Cambodian government set up a committee with the National ICT Development Authority (NiDA) to standardise Khmer on computers, which produced the NiDA keyboard layout. About 17 million people speak Khmer as their first language.
Khmer stacks consonants. When two consonants meet with no vowel between them, the second is written under the first as a subscript “foot”, coeng: the name ខ្មែរ itself has one (ខ with ម underneath). On a keyboard that means typing the first letter, the invisible sign ្, then the second letter. Khmer also has two series of consonants that change how a vowel sounds, so កា is “ka” but គា is “kea”, and vowel signs can sit before, above, below or after a consonant. Words are written without spaces; a space marks the end of a phrase and ។ ends a sentence.
A lot of Khmer text is still not Unicode. Legacy fonts such as Limon, where Latin characters are drawn to look like Khmer letters, remain common in offices and print; the text turns into Latin nonsense on any device without the font, and search engines cannot read it. On phones the hardest part is the subscripts: stacking a consonant with coeng takes several taps, so many people chat in Khmer written with Latin letters instead. Cambodia also uses its own digits, ០ to ៩, in everyday life, which most English keyboards cannot type. Large Khmer-speaking communities live in the United States, France and Australia. This keyboard produces real Unicode Khmer: all 33 consonants and the common independent vowels on screen (the rest in the popup), every vowel sign and the coeng in one popup, Khmer punctuation ។ ៕ ៗ, the riel sign ៛, Khmer digits in the 123 panel, and the NiDA layout on a physical keyboard.
The Largest Alphabet in the World
Guinness World Records lists Khmer’s 74 letters, some no longer in current use, as the largest alphabet. Many of them stack under each other, and words run together without spaces.
74 letters33 consonantsoldest date: 611 CEno spaces between words
Letters with feet
ខ ្ ម → ខ្ម
ខ្មែរស្រីក្ស
A consonant can sit under another as a subscript “foot”, called coeng. You type the first letter, the invisible sign ្, then the second letter.
ខ្មែរ — Khmer · ស្រី — woman
Two series
កា ≠ គា
កគ
Khmer has two series of consonants. ក and គ both sound like k, but they change the vowel that follows: កា is “ka”, គា is “kea”.
The same vowel sign, two sounds
No spaces
Words run together
ខ្ញុំស្រឡាញ់អ្នក
Khmer writes a whole phrase without spaces between words; a space marks the end of a phrase, and ។ ends a sentence.
ខ្ញុំ · ស្រឡាញ់ · អ្នក — I · love · you
Oldest date
611 CE, Angkor Borei
៦១១
The oldest dated Khmer inscription, K. 557/600 from Angkor Borei, was carved in 611 CE. Its script came from the Pallava script of South India.
៦១១ = 611 in Khmer digits
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
74, according to Guinness World Records, which lists it as the largest alphabet, a count that includes some letters no longer in current use. Modern Khmer uses 33 consonants, alongside independent vowels and dependent vowel signs.
Type the first consonant, open Vowels & coeng and tap ្, then type the second consonant: ខ + ្ + ម gives ខ្ម. The second letter drops under the first.
Type the consonant first, then tap the vowel sign in the popup: ក + ា gives កា. The popup shows every sign on ក so you can see where it goes, even the ones that appear before the consonant.
Some Khmer vowels, like េ, are written to the left of the consonant but typed after it. Unicode stores the consonant first and the font draws the vowel in front, so កេ is typed ក then េ.
Khmer consonants belong to an a-series or an o-series, and the series changes how the following vowel is pronounced. ក and គ both sound like k, but កា is read “ka” and គា is read “kea”.
Khmer does not separate words with spaces. A space marks the end of a phrase or clause, and ។ ends a sentence, so readers recognise the words from the letters themselves.
Khmer punctuation. ។ (khan) ends a sentence, ៕ ends a section or text, and ៗ repeats the previous word. All three are in the popup.
Yes, ០ ១ ២ ៣ ៤ ៥ ៦ ៧ ៨ ៩, and they are in everyday use in Cambodia. This keyboard shows them first in the 123 panel.
On screen, the letters are in traditional order. On a physical keyboard, the page follows the NiDA Khmer layout, the Cambodian standard, including its Shift letters.
It was typed with a legacy font such as Limon, where Latin characters are drawn to look like Khmer. Without that font, the Latin letters show. Text typed here is Unicode Khmer and displays everywhere.
From the Pallava script of South India. The oldest dated Khmer inscription, K. 557/600 from Angkor Borei, is from 611 CE, and Khmer script later influenced the Thai and Lao alphabets.
The two main styles of Khmer writing. Aksar Mul is rounded and used for titles, signs and inscriptions; Aksar Chrieng is slanted and used for everyday handwriting and some whole texts such as novels. Most modern printed Khmer uses a third, upright style, Aksar Chhor.
The sign of the Cambodian riel, the national currency. It is in the popup and the symbols panel.
About 17 million people speak Khmer as their first language, mainly in Cambodia, with large communities in Thailand, Vietnam, the United States, France and Australia.
They show each consonant’s basic sound in a simplified UNGEGN romanization. Consonants of the two series can share a hint: ក and គ are both “k”.
Signs such as ោ and ៀ are split vowels: part is drawn before the consonant and part after it. You still type the consonant first and the vowel second, so កោ is ក then ោ.
ក, ម, then ្ from the popup, then ព (it drops under ម), then ុ, ជ and ា. The ្ step is what stacks ព under ម.
In mid-April, over three days. The greeting សួស្តីឆ្នាំថ្មី (Happy New Year) is in the ready-made combos.
Arabicالعربية
Amazighⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ
Amharicአማርኛ
ArmenianՀայերեն
Assameseঅসমীয়া
BelarusianБеларуская
Bengaliবাংলা
BulgarianБългарски
Burmeseမြန်မာဘာသာ
Chinese中文
CzechČeština
DanishDansk
Dhivehiދިވެހި
Egyptian Hieroglyphs𓂀
FilipinoWikang Filipino
FrenchFrançais
Georgianქართული
GermanDeutsch
GreekΕλληνικά
HausaHarshen Hausa
Hebrewעברית
HungarianMagyar
IrishGaeilge
Japanese日本語
Kannadaಕನ್ನಡ
KazakhҚазақша
Khmerភាសាខ្មែរ
Korean한국어
Kurdishکوردی
Laoພາສາລາວ
MacedonianМакедонски
MongolianМонгол
Nepaliनेपाली
NorwegianNorsk
Pashtoپښتو
Persianفارسی
PolishPolski
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RussianРусский
SerbianСрпски
Sindhiسنڌي
Sinhalaසිංහල
SomaliSoomaali
SwedishSvenska
Thaiภาษาไทย
Tigrinyaትግርኛ
TurkishTürkçe
UkrainianУкраїнська
Uyghurئۇيغۇرچە
VietnameseTiếng Việt
