Is This Khmer Script?

[kjsbd]

I'm trying to establish a translation for this symbol, but my Google-<deleted> is letting me down. It looks vaguely like the "om" symbol (not the one that everyone gets tattooed on themselves), but it doesn't seem complete. I think it may be related to Buddhism in some way, and Googling is returning a few references to "Thai tattoo", so here I am..........

Can anyone assist?

[kriswillems]

I think you gave the answer. It looks like the Aum symbol and that is probably what it is. In different languages this symbol is written slightly different. Combined with some (or too much) artistic freedom, this gives different variations.

For instance the Tibetan version :

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Edited October 22, 2012 by kriswillems

[R7BKK]

I'd say I'm 99% sure that's Om/Aum. My first guess would be that it's in a Tibetan script (or possibly a tattoo artist's attempt at a Tibetan script), but that's just a guess at the language.

In most scripts, the Aum symbol is an artistic combination of the a, u and m (or nasalization) characters. I can see all three of those components in the attached image. (I don't know what language it is, but there's a lot of similarity between different Indic and South East Asian scripts, and variations on those three symbols are definitely in there.)

Edited October 22, 2012 by R7BKK