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Complex numeral characters used on cheques.
Also known as: Anti-fraud numerals, Capital Chinese numerals
The set of complex Chinese characters used in place of the ordinary numerals on financial documents, to make alteration visible.
Writes a numeral on a financial document in a form that cannot be altered undetectably.
Contexts: History, Public information
Exists because the ordinary numerals for one, two and three are one, two and three horizontal strokes, so a clerk could turn one into three with a brush; the complex forms are unrelated characters borrowed for their sound, chosen so that no two can be made from one another.
Contexts: History, Public information
Is required rather than encouraged on Chinese bank instruments, which makes it one of the few writing conventions with a compliance obligation attached.
Contexts: History, Public information
A parallel set of numeral characters of many strokes each, replacing glyphs of one, two and three strokes with ones of eight to fifteen.