dek
Noun
Meaning
dek (plural deks)
(journalism, slang) The subhead of a news story.
Examples
Compound numerals and derivatives Numerals are written together as one word when their values are multiplied, and separately when their values are added (dudek 20, dek du 12, dudek du 22).
Some specific nouns are reduplicated to form collectives : เดก (dek, child) is often repeated as เดก ๆ (dek dek) to refer to a group of children.
Then you can safely store the of that DEK in the database.
This approach also has the added benefit that the DEK can stay constant over time.