won

The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.

Noun

  1. The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.

    Synonyms: ₩ ￦

Origin

Borrowed from Korean 원(圓) (won), from Sinitic 圓 /圆 (“circle” > “round coin”) referring to the piece of eight. Doublet of yuan and yen.

Forms

won

Related

㌆

Derived

blue won red won

Verb archaic, obsolete

  1. To live, remain.
    • I long'd to leave this wand'ring pilgrimage, / And in my native soil again to won. - 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, xxxiii
  2. To be accustomed to do something.

Origin

From Old English wunian, from Proto-Germanic *wunāną, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”). Cognate with Dutch wonen, German wohnen.

Forms

wons wonning wonned wone

Verb form of, participle

  1. simple past and past participle of win

Origin

* Past participle of win, from Old English winnan.

Derived

hard-won unwon