Filling out a cheque - 金 I'm watching a drama and there's a scene with a closeup of a cheque. It shows the box where you would write the amount to pay, which I've parsed as below. What is `` used for and how is it read? `` already specifies it's an amount of money plus there are two different yen symbols used. > = > = > (amount)(yen symbol) **(?)** ()(another yen symbol)(exact amount / "only")

Writing "" at the beginning of numbers such as monetary amounts is to prevent altering or falsification. Possible altering is to add another number before the digit string. Therefore, it is important not to leave a gap between "" and the beginning of the numbers so that not any numbers are added.

Further more, we use ", , , , , and " instead of ", , , , , , and " respectedly in order to prevent altering. They used "" in the example given by OP, but we usually use "" for "".

I think you can easily understand that "", "" and "" are easily altered into "".
"", "" and "" could be changed into "", too.