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Number to Words Converter
Write any number out in words in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Indonesian, or Japanese, or as a Chinese capital amount, with a cheque mode that adds the currency and cents.
Number to Words Converter: Each language follows its own rules: Spanish shortens uno to un before nouns (veintiún mil), Portuguese places e between groups, German writes numbers below a million as one word, and French makes vingt and cent plural only where the rules allow, with the 1990 hyphenated spelling as an option. Japanese uses kanji numerals, or the daiji 壱, 弐, 参, and 拾 on cheques, and Chinese capital amounts follow the People's Bank of China rules. The rules were checked against thousands of numbers. Runs 100% locally in your browser with zero server file uploads.
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one thousand two hundred thirty-four
| English (US) | one thousand two hundred thirty-four |
|---|---|
| English (UK) | one thousand two hundred and thirty-four |
| Español | mil doscientos treinta y cuatro |
| Português (Brasil) | mil duzentos e trinta e quatro |
| Deutsch | eintausendzweihundertvierunddreißig |
| Français | mille deux cent trente-quatre |
| Français (orthographe 1990) | mille-deux-cent-trente-quatre |
| Bahasa Indonesia | seribu dua ratus tiga puluh empat |
| 日本語 | 千二百三十四 |
| 中文大写（简体） | 壹仟贰佰叁拾肆 |
| 中文大寫（繁體） | 壹仟貳佰參拾肆 |
Why amounts are written out
Writing an amount in words as well as figures makes it hard to change: turning 100 into 900 takes a stroke of the pen, but one hundred cannot easily become nine hundred. That is why cheques, contracts, and invoices in many countries require both, and why Chinese and Japanese documents use special numeral characters that resist alteration.
Large numbers also differ between languages. A billion in English is a thousand million. In Spanish, French, and German, billón, billion, and Billion mean a million million, and a thousand million is mil millones, milliard, or Milliarde; Portugal uses bilião the same way. Brazilian Portuguese follows the English usage with bilhão.
Other ways to write numbers
For clock faces, chapter numbers, and monuments, the Roman numeral converter writes numbers up to 3,999 in Roman numerals. To spell out text letter by letter in dots and dashes, use the Morse code translator.
How to use it
- Enter a number, with or without thousands separators.
- Pick the language, or read it in all of them at once.
- Switch to the amount mode for a cheque or invoice line with the currency and cents.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I write a cheque amount in words?
In the US, write the dollars in words followed by the cents as a fraction of 100: One thousand two hundred thirty-four and 56/100. Fill any space left on the line with a stroke so nothing can be added. Banks elsewhere have their own conventions, so check what yours expects.
Should I write "and" in one hundred and one?
British English uses and before the tens and units (one hundred and one); American English usually leaves it out, especially on cheques, where and introduces the cents. Both versions are offered.
What are Chinese capital numbers for?
On cheques, invoices, receipts, and contracts in China, amounts are written in the capital forms 壹贰叁肆伍陆柒捌玖拾佰仟 because the everyday characters 一二三 can be altered with a single stroke. The amount ends in 元整 when there are no jiao or fen.
How large a number can it write?
Up to 999 trillion (999,999,999,999,999). Amounts can have two decimal places.
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