Won sign


The won sign, , is a currency symbol. It represents the South Korean won, the North Korean won and, unofficially, the old Korean won.

Appearance

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

In Microsoft Windows code page 949, the position is also used for the won sign.
In Korean versions of Windows, many fonts display the backslash character as the won sign. This also applies to the directory separator character and the escape character. Most Korean keyboards input when the won sign key is pressed, so the Unicode letters are rarely used.
The same issue 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, and for "Kinzcash", the currency of the online game Webkinz.