Chinese Numeral Amount Converter

When formal numerals are required

On cheques, contracts, receipts (收據), promissory notes and court filings in Taiwan an amount is written twice: in Arabic figures and in formal Chinese numerals, the 大寫 form. The formal characters have many strokes and cannot be altered with an extra line, so 1,000 cannot quietly become 7,000. Banks reject a cheque whose figures and 大寫 disagree, and the 大寫 prevails in a dispute. This tool converts amounts up to 16 digits for copying straight onto the document.

The ten characters and units

• Digits: 零 壹 貳 參 肆 伍 陸 柒 捌 玖 (0–9). Units: 拾 (10), 佰 (100), 仟 (1,000); groups: 萬 (10⁴), 億 (10⁸), 兆 (10¹²).
• Currency words: 元 for dollars, 角 for tenths (10 cents) and 分 for hundredths (1 cent). 整 (or 正) closes an amount with no cents.
• Writing 新台幣 or 新臺幣 in front of the amount is common on cheques and contracts; both spellings are accepted.
• Everyday numerals (一二三…十百千) appear as a second line for informal notes; never use them on a cheque.

Common mistakes

• Forgetting 零 inside a number: 1,005 is 壹仟零伍元, not 壹仟伍元; 100,500 is 壹拾萬零伍佰元.
• Writing 拾 without 壹 at the start: formal usage is 壹拾元, not 拾元.
• Doubling zeros: a run of zeros in one group is written with a single 零 (10,005 → 壹萬零伍元).
• Omitting 整 after a whole amount, which leaves room for someone to append 角 or 分.

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