U+20A9 Won Sign
U+20A9 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Currency Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Halfwidth East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as European Terminator and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+20A9 behaves as Prefix Numeric regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “won” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: KPW, KRW.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The won sign ⟨₩⟩, is a currency symbol. It represents the South Korean won, the North Korean won and, unofficially, the old Korean won.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 8361 |
UTF-8 | E2 82 A9 |
UTF-16 | 20 A9 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 20 A9 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%82%A9 |
HTML hex reference | ₩ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â‚© |
AGL: Latin-5 | uni20A9 |
Adobe Glyph List | won |
digraph | W= |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
WON SIGN | |
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Currency Symbols | |
Currency Symbol | |
Common | |
European Terminator | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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✘ | |
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Other | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Halfwidth | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Prefix Numeric | |
None | |
not a number | |
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