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<p>[QUOTE="Kashmir Pulaski, post: 8282040, member: 118376"]<font size="6">This month’s <i>“Club”</i> coin ... South Korean 10 ₩ (won) </font><font size="4">[.82¢; <1¢]</font><font size="6">.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">The old "won" was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognate" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognate" rel="nofollow">cognate</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_yuan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_yuan" rel="nofollow">Chinese yuan</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_yen" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_yen" rel="nofollow">Japanese yen</a>, which were both derived from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar" rel="nofollow">Spanish-American silver dollar</a>. It is derived from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja" rel="nofollow">hanja</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%9C%93" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%9C%93" rel="nofollow">圓</a>(원, <i>won</i>), meaning "round", which describes the shape of the silver dollar.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">The won was subdivided into 100 <i>jeon</i> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language" rel="nofollow">Korean</a>: 전; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja" rel="nofollow">Hanja</a>: 錢; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Romanization_of_Korean" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Romanization_of_Korean" rel="nofollow">RR</a>: <i>jeon</i>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCune%E2%80%93Reischauer" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCune%E2%80%93Reischauer" rel="nofollow">MR</a>: <i>chŏn</i>), itself a cognate of the Chinese unit of weight <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_(unit)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_(unit)" rel="nofollow">mace</a> and synonymous with money in general. The current won (1962 to present) is written in hangul only and does not officially have any hanja associated with it.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1462807[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1462808[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kashmir Pulaski, post: 8282040, member: 118376"][SIZE=6]This month’s [I]“Club”[/I] coin ... South Korean 10 ₩ (won) [/SIZE][SIZE=4][.82¢; <1¢][/SIZE][SIZE=6].[/SIZE] [SIZE=5]The old "won" was a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognate']cognate[/URL] of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_yuan']Chinese yuan[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_yen']Japanese yen[/URL], which were both derived from the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar']Spanish-American silver dollar[/URL]. It is derived from the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja']hanja[/URL] [URL='https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%9C%93']圓[/URL](원, [I]won[/I]), meaning "round", which describes the shape of the silver dollar. The won was subdivided into 100 [I]jeon[/I] ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language']Korean[/URL]: 전; [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja']Hanja[/URL]: 錢; [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Romanization_of_Korean']RR[/URL]: [I]jeon[/I]; [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCune%E2%80%93Reischauer']MR[/URL]: [I]chŏn[/I]), itself a cognate of the Chinese unit of weight [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_(unit)']mace[/URL] and synonymous with money in general. The current won (1962 to present) is written in hangul only and does not officially have any hanja associated with it.[/SIZE] [ATTACH=full]1462807[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1462808[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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