The won sign , is a
currency symbol. It represents the
South Korean won, the
North Korean won and, unofficially, the old
Korean won Korean won primarily refers to:
* South Korean won, the present currency of South Korea
* North Korean won
The Korean People's won, more commonly known as the North Korean won (currency symbol, symbol: ₩; ISO 4217, code: KPW; ) and someti ...
.
Appearance
Its appearance is "W" (the first letter of "Won") with a horizontal strike going through the center. Some fonts display the won sign with two horizontal lines, and others with only one horizontal line. Both forms are used when handwritten.
Encoding
The
Unicode
Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...
code point is : this is valid for either appearance. Additionally, there is a fullwidth character at .
Microsoft Windows
In
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sec ...
code page 949, the position is used for the won sign (in
Code page 850 (latin script), this codepoint is used for
backslash
The backslash is a mark used mainly in computing and mathematics. It is the mirror image of the common slash (punctuation), slash . It is a relatively recent mark, first documented in the 1930s. It is sometimes called a hack, whack, Escape c ...
).
In Korean versions of Windows, many fonts (including system fonts) display the backslash character as the won sign. This also applies to the
directory separator character (for example, ) and the escape character (
₩n).
The
same issue (of dual use of the 0x5C code point) is seen with the
yen sign
The yen and yuan sign (¥) is a currency sign used for the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan currencies when writing in Latin scripts. This character resembles a capital letter Y with a single or double horizontal stroke. The symbol is usually ...
in Japanese versions of Windows.
MacOS
In
macOS
macOS, previously OS X and originally Mac OS X, is a Unix, Unix-based operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple since 2001. It is the current operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. With ...
, the won sign key inputs only when in
Hangul
The Korean alphabet is the modern writing system for the Korean language. In North Korea, the alphabet is known as (), and in South Korea, it is known as (). The letters for the five basic consonants reflect the shape of the speech organs ...
input mode.
Fictional use
In fiction, it is used for the woolong, a fictional currency in anime by
Shinichirō Watanabe
is a Japanese anime television and film director, best known for directing the critically acclaimed and commercially successful anime series ''Cowboy Bebop'', '' Samurai Champloo'', '' Space Dandy'', '' Terror in Resonance'', and '' Carole & T ...
(''
Cowboy Bebop
is a 1998 Japanese neo-noir space Western anime television series that aired on TV Tokyo and Wowow from 1998 to 1999. It was created and animated by Sunrise (company), Sunrise, led by a production team of director Shinichirō Watanabe, ...
'', ''
Space Dandy
, is a 2014 Japanese comic science fiction anime television series produced by Bones. The series follows the misadventures of Dandy, an alien hunter who is "a dandy guy in space", in search for undiscovered and rare aliens with his robot ass ...
'' and ''
Carole & Tuesday
is an original anime television series directed by Shinichirō Watanabe. It was produced by Bones in commemoration of the studio's 20th anniversary and the 10th anniversary of record label FlyingDog. It aired from April 11 to October 3, 2 ...
''), and for "Kinzcash", the currency of the online game ''
Webkinz
Webkinz is a Stuffed toy, plush toy and toys-to-life video game franchise created by the Canadian toy company Ganz Midwest-CBK, Ganz. The game launched on April 15th, 2005, with Webkinz Day being celebrated on April 29th.
Each Webkinz plush toy ...
''.
References
See also
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