Cheque Date in Words
How to Use
📅 Cheque Date in Words
Cheques, drafts, receipts and IOUs usually carry the date in uppercase Chinese numerals. The reason is simple: an Arabic digit can be altered with a single stroke, while 壹拾壹 is much harder to change. This tool does that conversion.
The rules follow financial practice: the year is read digit by digit (2026 becomes 贰零贰陆年, not 二千零二十六年), October is written 壹拾月, and days 10, 20 and 30 take the full form while 11-19 become 壹拾X日 and 21-29 become 贰拾X日.
✨ Features
- Year read digit by digit, matching document convention
- Tens and remainder handled correctly for both month and day
- Rejects impossible dates such as 30 February
- Today shortcut and one-click copy
- Runs entirely in the browser
🚀 How to Use
- Pick the year, month and day, or press Today
- Press convert
- Copy the generated date
- Write it into the date field of the document
⚠️ Notes
- Bank rules differ slightly: some banks have internal conventions for 零 and 壹拾, so check with the issuing bank once before submitting
- Amount is separate: this tool only handles the date; use the amount converter for the sum
- Never overwrite: a mistaken date on a cheque should be voided and reissued, not corrected in place
New in v1.1.0
- RMB amount capitals with yuan, jiao, fen and whole amounts
- Quick date parsing for four date formats
- Batch conversion with TXT export
New in v1.2.0
- Weekday for the selected date
- English form (10th November 2026) with copy
New in v1.3.0
- Parse back: read a capital date off a cheque and get the numeric date, with validation
新增功能(v1.4.0)
- Amount parsing: reads a capital amount back into digits, split into yuan, jiao and fen
Visual and functional fixes (v1.4.1)
- Fixed cramped vertical padding on result rows such as weekday and English wording