How to type Korean Won
To type Korean Won (₩), press Alt + 8361 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ₩ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+20A9 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 20a9 on Linux, or 20a9 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Won Sign
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+20A9
- Windows
- Alt + 8361 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 8361 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ₩ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+20A9 | WON SIGN |
Other currency symbols
₩ lives in the Currency Symbols block (U+20A0-U+20CF), currency signs added after Latin-1, including the euro. Within Unicode it is classified as Sc, a currency symbol. Formatting libraries recognise it when rendering money. Its bidirectional class makes it a European number terminator, so it sits beside a number without breaking its direction.
What Korean Won is used for
Unicode publishes a second list of names for ₩ in CLDR, the keywords its own search data offers rather than the formal name, and they are kpw and krw. Those words are what somebody looking for this character is liable to type when Korean Won is not the name they know it by, and the search on the symbol lists matches them as well as the Unicode name.
What Unicode says about Korean Won
Unicode annotates ₩ directly. Against U+20A9 the code chart carries the note “Korea”. It adds: glyph may have one or two crossbars, but the most common form in Korea has only one. That is the standard saying what the character is for, rather than an inference from its name.
How Korean Won behaves in software
₩ is a halfwidth form and takes one column, the narrow counterpart of a fullwidth character. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
Every way to write Korean Won
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+20A9 |
| Decimal | 8361 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 82 A9 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 20 A9 |
| HTML entity | ₩ |
| HTML numeric | ₩ or ₩ |
| CSS | \20A9 |
| JavaScript | \u20A9 |
| Python | \u20A9 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%82%A9 |
| SVG | 20A9.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ₩ arrives as â‚©
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 82 A9 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.