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Won Symbol
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11 won signs and codes. Tap any value to copy it.
11 won signs and codes. A character and its name both copy the character. A code copies the code.
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U+20A9. Korea's currency sign: a W, the first letter of won, struck through. Unicode's note says a font may give it one crossbar or two and that one is the commonest in Korea. \textwon in LaTeX text; Compose, W, = with a Compose key.
U+FFE6. The same sign widened to fill the square of a Hangul syllable, for text set in full-width characters. A separate code point from U+20A9.
Made of U+20A9 and the digits 1000: a thousand won, the value of the lowest South Korean banknote.
U+C6D0. The Hangul syllable that Korean writes for won. Unicode spells its name weon.
ISO 4217 letters for the South Korean won: KR is the country code of South Korea and W is for won.
The North's won has its own entry in the same list: KP, then W.
U+5713. The hanja the word won comes from; it means round. The old won and China's yuan were cognates. Today the won is written in Hangul only.
U+0057. The plain capital under the bar, on the keyboard at Shift+W. Typed alone it is only a letter.
U+005C. The backslash, stored as 0x5C. Code page 949, the Korean one, put the won sign at that position, and many Korean fonts still paint ₩ here.
U+051C. A Cyrillic capital shaped like W, with no bar. Unicode points to it from the Latin W. Added in Unicode 5.1 (2008).
U+A5C0. The third character with won in its Unicode name: a syllable of the Vai script of West Africa, unrelated to Korean money.
The won symbol is ₩, Won sign, U+20A9: a W, which begins won, with a bar through it. It is the Korean currency symbol, for South Korean and North Korean money alike.
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One bar or two
Some fonts draw ₩ with two horizontal lines, others with one. Both are U+20A9, and Unicode notes that the form most common in Korea has one. The wide ￦, U+FFE6, is a second character, made for full-width text.
The won symbol on a keyboard
Neither Alt code table holds ₩, and no key of the U.S. layout types it. With a Compose key the keyboard command is Compose, W, =. A web page can write ₩, and LaTeX text has \textwon.
KRW is the South Korea currency code and KPW the North Korean one; both currencies share the sign ₩.
Questions and answers
What is the Korean won symbol?
₩, Won sign, U+20A9. One sign serves the South Korean won and the North Korean won. In Korean the unit is written 원, in Hangul.
Is there a won symbol alt code?
No. ₩ is in neither Alt code table, and it has no named HTML entity. Type it with Compose, W, = where a Compose key exists, or write ₩ in a web page.
Which keyboard key is for won symbols?
Korean keyboards have a won sign key. In Korean versions of Windows the sign sits at the code that is a backslash elsewhere, and many fonts there draw every backslash as ₩. On a Mac the key gives U+20A9 only in Hangul input mode.
Is the won symbol Chinese?
No. ₩ is the Korea won sign, built on a Latin W. The word won does have a Chinese root: it comes from the hanja 圓, round, and the old won and China's yuan were cognates.
All 11 won signs and codes
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￦Fullwidth won signU+FFE6. The same sign widened to fill the square of a Hangul syllable, for text set in full-width characters. A separate code point from U+20A9.
KPWKPW, the code of the North Korean wonThe North's won has its own entry in the same list: KP, then W.
KRWKRW, the code of the South Korean wonISO 4217 letters for the South Korean won: KR is the country code of South Korea and W is for won.
₩1000One thousand wonMade of U+20A9 and the digits 1000: a thousand won, the value of the lowest South Korean banknote.
원Won in HangulU+C6D0. The Hangul syllable that Korean writes for won. Unicode spells its name weon.
₩Won signU+20A9. Korea's currency sign: a W, the first letter of won, struck through. Unicode's note says a font may give it one crossbar or two and that one is the commonest in Korea. \textwon in LaTeX text; Compose, W, = with a Compose key.
In Hangul, hanja and letters 1
圓The hanja behind the word wonU+5713. The hanja the word won comes from; it means round. The old won and China's yuan were cognates. Today the won is written in Hangul only.
Not a won sign 4
ԜCyrillic capital letter weU+051C. A Cyrillic capital shaped like W, with no bar. Unicode points to it from the Latin W. Added in Unicode 5.1 (2008).
WLatin capital letter wU+0057. The plain capital under the bar, on the keyboard at Shift+W. Typed alone it is only a letter.
\Reverse solidusU+005C. The backslash, stored as 0x5C. Code page 949, the Korean one, put the won sign at that position, and many Korean fonts still paint ₩ here.
ꗀVai syllable wonU+A5C0. The third character with won in its Unicode name: a syllable of the Vai script of West Africa, unrelated to Korean money.