Technical information

Symbol
NameWon sign
Unicode numberU+20A9
CategoryPresently Currency Symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ₩, or U+20A9, is known as the "Won Sign". It belongs to the "Currency Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Currency" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of the symbol for the South Korean Won, the official currency of South Korea. It is used in various contexts related to finance, economy, banking, and commerce to represent the Korean Won in print and digital media. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity₩
HTML Entity (hex)₩
URL Escape Code%E2%82%A9
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x82 0xA9
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000010:10101001
UTF-160x20A9
UTF-320x000020A9

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u20A9"
CSS Code\20A9
JavaScript"\u20A9"
Perl\x{20A9}
Python 2u"\u20A9"
Python 3\u20A9
Ruby\u{20A9}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ₩ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8361;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\20A9";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References