The won sign , is a currency symbol. It represents the

South Korean won The Korean Republic won, unofficially the South Korean won ( Symbol: ₩; Code: KRW; Korean: 대한민국 원) is the official currency of South Korea. A single won is divided into 100 jeon, the monetary subunit. The jeon is no longer used f ...

, the North Korean won and, unofficially, the old Korean won.

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 code point is : this is valid for either appearance. Additionally, there is a full width character at .

Microsoft Windows

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code page 949, the position ( backslash) is also used for the won sign. 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). Most Korean keyboards input when the won sign key is pressed, so the Unicode letters are rarely used. The same issue (of dual use of a code point) occurs with the yen sign in Japanese versions of Windows.

MacOS

In macOS, the won sign key inputs only when in Hangul input mode.

Fictional use

In fiction, it is used for the woolong, a fictional currency in anime by Shinichirō Watanabe ('' Cowboy Bebop'', '' Space Dandy'' and '' Carole & Tuesday''), and for "Kinzcash", the currency of the online game '' Webkinz''.

Appearance

Encoding

Microsoft Windows

MacOS

Fictional use

References

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