The won sign , is a currency symbol. It represents the South Korean won, 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 fullwidth character at .
Microsoft Windows
In Microsoft Windows code page 949, the position is used for the won sign (in Code page 850 (latin script), this codepoint is used for
backslash).
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 in Japanese versions of Windows.
MacOS
In
macOS, the won sign key inputs only when in
Hangul input mode.
See also
