Won Sign

U+20A9
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal ₩
Hex ₩

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+20A9
Decimal
8361
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Currency Symbol (Sc)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ET European Number Terminator
East Asian Width
H Halfwidth

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

U+0057 U+0335

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Won Sign.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
₩
HTML Hex
₩
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 82 A9
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
20 A9
UTF-32 Hex
000020A9
CSS Escape
\20A9
JavaScript Escape
\u20A9
Python Escape
\u20A9
URL Encoded
%E2%82%A9
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Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Won Sign as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.