柒 (qī) · seven (banker's anti-fraud form of 七)

Meanings

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

Characters

柒

qī

seven (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

Examples

HSK 6

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.

HSK 7-9

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.

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.