Rupees in words
The amount line for a cheque, written in the lakh and crore grouping Nepal uses. Paisa included.
Amount to words
Rupees One Lakh Twenty Three Thousand Four Hundred Fifty Six And Fifty Paisa Only
| Nepali grouping | 1,23,456.5 |
|---|---|
| Devanagari digits | १,२३,४५६.५ |
| International reading | One Hundred Twenty Three Thousand Four Hundred Fifty Six |
Only English words are produced. Nepali number words are irregular for every value up to a hundred, and a misspelled word on a cheque is a real problem, so that table is not guessed at here. A Devanagari version will ship once it is checked against a reference rather than assembled from memory.
Nepal counts in twos, not threes
English groups digits in threes: thousand, million, billion. Nepal and India group 2-2-3: thousand, lakh, crore, arab. The same figure is written 12,34,567 here and 1,234,567 abroad, and read "twelve lakh thirty four thousand five hundred sixty seven" rather than "one point two million".
This matters on paperwork. A cheque, a loan agreement or a tender document written in the wrong grouping is at best confusing and at worst refused, so the Nepali reading is the default here and the international one is shown beside it for checking against a foreign invoice.
The scale, in order
- 1 thousand1,000
- 1 lakh1,00,000 (100 thousand)
- 1 crore1,00,00,000 (100 lakh)
- 1 arab1,00,00,00,000 (100 crore)
- 1 kharab100 arab
- 1 shankha100 kharab
How paisa is handled
Anything after the decimal point is read as paisa and rounded to the nearest one, so 5.999 becomes six rupees rather than five rupees and ninety nine paisa. The word "only" is appended, which is the convention that stops an amount being extended after it is written.