Counting numbers are written in capital letters and have been used since ancient times. Although some accounts gradually became Arabic numerals after liberation, important accounts, checks and remittances, stocks and treasury bills still use capitalized chinese numerals.
In 2004, Mr. Hou Jialiang published the article "The Origin of Capitalized Numbers" in Chewing WordsNo. 12. He said: "In order to fight corruption and promote honesty, Zhu Yuanzhang also formulated strict laws to punish economic crimes, and took technical preventive measures and implemented some effective measures in financial management.
The Chinese characters' One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Hundred and Thousand' for recording the amount of money and grain are capitalized, and' One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Ground, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Hundred and Thousand' is one of them. In other words, it originated from Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
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Application of uppercase numbers:
1, bank check
In a bank check, there are many capital figures. For example, five hundred and sixty thousand yuan only (560,000 yuan) and one million and twenty-five yuan and twenty-seven cents (125.27 yuan).
2. Invoice
There are also capitalized figures (usually total) on the invoice.
3. Gift list
In China tradition, writing gift books is a very traditional China culture. Gifts in the gift book should be in the form of capital letters. For example, five thousand yuan.
4. Others
In addition, on the calendar, 20 stands for 20 and 30 stands for 30 (30 stands for 40).
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