Won sign

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Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' )
brackets (( )), ([ ]), ({ }), (< >)
colon ( : )
comma ( , )
dashes ( , , , )
ellipses ( , ... )
exclamation mark ( ! )
full stop (period) ( . )
guillemets ( « » )
hyphen ( -, )
question mark ( ? )
quotation marks ( ‘ ’, “ ” )
semicolon ( ; )
slash/stroke ( / )
solidus ( )
Word dividers
spaces ( ) () () ( ) ()
interpunct ( · )
General typography
ampersand ( & )
at sign ( @ )
asterisk ( * )
backslash ( \ )
bullet ( )
caret ( ^ )
currency generic: ( ¤ )
specific: ¢, $, , £, ¥, ,
daggers ( , )
degree ( ° )
inverted exclamation mark ( ¡ )
inverted question mark ( ¿ )
number sign ( # )
numero sign ( )
percent (etc.) ( %, ‰, )
pilcrow ( )
prime ( )
section sign ( § )
tilde/swung dash ( ~ )
umlaut/diaeresis ( ¨ )
underscore/understrike ( _ )
vertical/pipe/broken bar ( |, ¦ )
Uncommon typography
asterism ( )
index/fist ( )
therefore sign ( )
because sign ( )
interrobang ( )
irony mark ( )
lozenge ( )
reference mark ( )

v  d  e

The won sign (₩) is a currency symbol that represents:

And in fiction:

  • Woolong, a fictional currency in Cowboy Bebop
  • Kinzcash, a fictional form of currency in the online game Webkinz

Computing

The directory separator character also appears on Korean versions of Microsoft Windows as ₩, because ₩ occupies the same position (0x5C) on code page 949 that backslash occupies in ASCII.1

Unicode

The Unicode code point for ₩ is U+20A9; it can be represented in non-unicode HTML as &#8361;.

Additionally, there is a full-width won sign: ₩ at code point U+FFE6 for use with wide fonts (esp. east Asian fonts).

References

  1. ^ When is a backslash not a backslash?

Wikipedia content modification information:

  • This page was last modified on 30 October 2008, at 21:52.

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