₩
| Currency symbols | |
|---|---|
| Symbols of valid currencies and tokens | ฿ - ₵ - ¢ - ₡ - ₫ - € - ƒ - ₲ - ₭ - ₾ - £ - ₤ - ₺ - ₼ - ₥ - ₦ - ₱ ₽ - ₹ - ₨ - ৲ - ৳ - $ - ₮ - ₩ - ¥ - ₴ - ₪ - 〒 |
| Symbols of no longer valid currencies and tokens | ₳ - ₢ - ₡ - ₰ - ₯ - ₠ - ₣ - ℳ - ₧ - ℛℳ |
The sign ₩ (won sign ), a W with a double slash
- stands for the currency units of the states of North and South Korea - the North Korean won and the South Korean won .
- serves as a separator in path information on Korean Windows computers.
It can be entered in HTML as ₩or via the Unicode character value 20A9(hexadecimal) or 8361(decimal).
Currencies
Use as a currency symbol to indicate an amount of money in North or South Korean won depends on the context:
- In an English-speaking context, ₩ is placed in front of the amount.
- In a Korean-speaking context, 원 is usually placed after the amount, which corresponds to the order in which it is pronounced in Korean.
- Korean price stickers sometimes have both: ₩ in front of and 원 after the amount.
- If consideration is to be given to foreigners, it usually says ₩, otherwise rather 원.
The ISO 4217 code KRW is used less often in Korea than around EUR in German-speaking countries.
Computer science
Is a Windows operating system running under Korean locale , e.g. B. on Korean computers ₩ acts as a separator of directories in a path . A path than under German locale C:\WINDOWS\system32\charmap.exeappears, 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 in the ASCII character set with the Won symbol in the corresponding Korean character sets.
Korean keyboards allow you to enter both the ₩ character and the backslash .