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A letter written beneath a letter.
Also known as: Khmer subscript sign, Khmer leg
The Khmer mark converting the following consonant into a subscript form written beneath the preceding one.
Turns the consonant following it into a subscript form written beneath the base consonant.
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Named 'leg' after the shape it produces, and it is the reason Khmer text needs more vertical space per line than any other script in the region.
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The Khmer answer to the cluster problem the Indic batch records Devanagari solving with ligatures and Tibetan with stacking: Khmer stacks too, but marks the stack with a character rather than implying it.
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An invisible control that causes the next consonant to be drawn in a reduced form hanging below the base letter, producing a two- or three-tier stack.