Won sign

The sign ₩ ( Wonzeichen )

• Stands for the currency units of the countries of North and South Korea - North Korean Won and the South Korean won.
• Serves as a separator in path names.

It can be entered in HTML than ₩ or the Unicode character value 20A9 (hexadecimal) or 8361 (decimal).

Currencies

When specifying a sum of money in North or South Korean Won ₩ English speaking context is prepended as a currency symbol to the amount. In koreanischsprachigem context is normally 원 after the amount, which corresponds to the order in which the pronunciation in Korean. On Korean price stickers sometimes is both: 원 ₩ behind and in front of the amount. If consideration for foreigners to be taken seriously usually ₩, otherwise rather 원. The ISO 4217 Code "KRW " is used less frequently in Korea than about " EUR " in the German-speaking countries.

Computer science

Runs a Windows operating system with Korean locale, eg on Korean computers, ₩ acts as a separator of directories in a path. A path under German locale as C: is displayed \ WINDOWS \ system32 \ charmap.exe, looks after a restart of the operating system under Korean locale like this: C: ₩ ₩ WINDOWS system32 ₩ charmap.exe. This is due to the replacement of the backslash character in the ASCII character set by Won- symbol in the corresponding Korean character sets.

Korean keyboards allow both the input of ₩ character as well as the backslash.

• Currency symbol
• Korea