Won Sign

The Won Sign at U+20A9 is the currency symbol for the won, especially the South Korean won, and it belongs to the Currency Symbols block. It marks monetary amounts in the same way that a dollar sign or euro sign marks prices, invoices, budgets, and financial figures. Its most common use is in South Korea for prices and accounting, as in ₩10,000 for ten thousand won. It appears on retail price tags, restaurant menus, travel booking pages, banking interfaces, receipts, and business reports, usually before the number in English-language contexts and often alongside the currency code KRW in international finance. The sign is also historically associated with the North Korean won, though outside North Korea the ISO currency code KPW is often clearer in data tables, exchange-rate listings, and news reporting. In typography it is related in appearance to a capital W with one or two horizontal strokes; because local keyboards and legacy encodings have sometimes treated won and backslash-like characters in unusual ways, copied text from older Korean computing environments can occasionally display a won sign where a backslash was intended.