U+20A9 "₩" Won Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
₩
U+20A9 "₩" Won Sign is the currency symbol for the South Korean won, the official currency of the Republic of Korea, derived from the Korean word "won" meaning "round" and represented by a capital W with a single or double horizontal stroke through it. It is encoded in the Currency Symbols block and is used in financial contexts to denote amounts of Korean won, such as in pricing, banking, and international trade, though it is often typed using a standard keyboard combination rather than being a separate key. The symbol distinguishes the won from other currencies like the Japanese yen (¥) or Chinese yuan (¥/元), providing a unique identifier for Korea's monetary unit in digital text and global commerce.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20A9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Won Sign |
| Block | Currency Symbols |
| General Category | Currency Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Terminator |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ₩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ₩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x82 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20A9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20a9 |