ជើងក្អែក

Khmer

Etymology

ជើង (cəəng, foot) +‎ ក្អែក (kʼaek, crow), literally crow's foot.

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic ជើងក្អែក
joeṅk̥ʼaek
WT romanisation cəəng kʼaek
(standard) IPA(key) /cəːŋ ˈkʔaek/

Noun

ជើងក្អែក • (cəəng kʼaek)

  1. cross (shape)
  2. crow's foot sign (+)
  3. kakabat diacritic () (see កាកបាទ (kakkɑbaat), used in certain modal particles, e.g. ហ្ន៎ (ហ្ន៎))
  4. caret ⟨  ⟩ (symbol to mark the position of an omitted word)