Khmer

Letter

ឣ • ‎(’ɑɑ’)

1. Deprecated independent vowel, no longer used. Use អ instead.

Usage notes

The independent vowel ឣ and the consonant អ 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 អ should be used for both the consonant and the vowel.