柒 (qī): seven (banker's anti-fraud form…

Meanings

1 seven (banker's anti-fraud form of 七)

Characters

柒

qī

seven (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

Examples

支票上写着柒仟元整。

Zhīpiào shàng xiě zhe qī qiān yuán zhěng.

The amount written on the check is seven thousand yuan exactly.

财务单据上的七要写成柒。

Cáiwù dānjù shàng de qī yào xiě chéng qī.

On financial documents, seven is written with the complex form, not 七.

Tips

usage

柒 is the 'capital' numeral for 七 (seven), used on checks, contracts and receipts so the figure can't be altered by adding strokes. The full set runs 壹贰叁肆伍陆柒捌玖拾.

Components

radical

木 mù

tree; wood

木 ('tree') is the indexing radical at the bottom; it contributes no meaning to the number sense and only files the character under the wood radical.

semantic

氵 shuǐ

water

The three-drop water form 氵 sits on the left; the character was borrowed phonetically for 'seven', so the water element is structural rather than meaningful here.

phonetic

七 qī

seven

七 gives both the sound qī and the meaning 'seven', this is the simple numeral hidden inside its own anti-fraud spelling.