El riel (en camboyano: "brillante") es la unidad monetaria de Camboya. El código ISO 4217 es KHR y se acostumbra a abreviar con un símbolo especial: ៛, o bien CR. Tradicionalmente se ha dividido en 10 kak o 100 sen (សេន), aunque a causa del poco valor de la moneda hace tiempo que la fracción ya no circula. A finales de 2006, el riel camboyano era la décima unidad monetaria de valor más bajo del mundo.

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The riel (Khmer: រៀល; sign: ៛; code: KHR) is the currency of Cambodia. There have been two distinct riel, the first issued between 1953 and May 1975. Between 1975 and 1980, the country had no monetary system. A second currency, also named "riel", has been issued since March 20, 1980. However, this currency has never gained much public acceptance, with most Cambodians preferring foreign currency. The UN peacekeeping operation of 1993 injected a large quantity of U.S. dollars into the local economy. As a result, the dollar has become the country's common currency. Riel notes are used for fractional dollar amounts as U.S. coins are not in circulation. The symbol is encoded in Unicode at U+17DB ៛ KHMER CURRENCY SYMBOL RIEL (HTML ៛). Popular belief suggests that the name of the currency comes from the Mekong river fish, the riel ("small fish" in Khmer). It is more likely that the name derives from the high silver content Mexican real used by Malay, Indian and Chinese merchants in mid-19th-century Cambodia.

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