Won sign
| â‚© | |
|---|---|
|
Won sign | |
The won sign (â‚©) is a currency symbol that represents:
- South Korean won
- North Korean won
- (Unofficially) old Korean won
And in fiction:
- Woolong, a fictional currency in Cowboy Bebop and Space Dandy
- Kinzcash, a fictional form of currency in the online game Webkinz
Computing
The directory separator character also appears on Korean versions of Microsoft Windows as â‚©, because â‚© occupies the same position (0x5C) on code page 949 that backslash occupies in ASCII.[1]
Encoding
The Unicode code point is U+20A9 â‚© WON SIGN (HTML ₩).
Additionally, there is also a sign at U+FFE6 ￦ FULLWIDTH WON SIGN (HTML ￦ · in the block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms) for use with wide fonts, especially east Asian fonts.
U+20A9 â‚© is not merely used in South Korea. Alternatively, the backslash (U+005C \ ) is used on Microsoft Windows and the fullwidth form (U+FFE6 ￦ ) is used on Mac OS. In many South Korean fonts for Windows, the backslash has the shape of the Won sign including system fonts such Gulim (굴림) and Malgun Gothic (ë§‘ì€ ê³ ë”•).
References
| ||||||||||
