U+FFE6 "￦" Fullwidth Won Sign Unicode Character

U+FFE6 "￦" Fullwidth Won Sign is a typographic variant of the standard Won sign (₩) used for the South Korean won currency, designed to occupy the same width as CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) characters in monospaced and East Asian fonts. It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, where it corresponds to the fullwidth representation of the Latin letter W combined with a double horizontal stroke, ensuring visual alignment in text that mixes fullwidth ideographs with currency symbols.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FFE6
Version Added	1.1
Name	Fullwidth Won Sign
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Currency Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	European Terminator
Decomposition Type	Wide
Decomposition Mapping	"₩" U+20A9 Won Sign

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	￦
HTML Hex Encoding	￦
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBF 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFFE6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FFE6
C/C++/Java Escape	\uffe6

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Prefix Numeric
East Asian Width	Fullwidth
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"₩" U+20A9 Won Sign
NFKC Simple Casefold	"₩" U+20A9 Won Sign
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other