Editing Thai baht (section)

=== Historical symbols used before decimalization ===
Before decimalization, the Siamese government employed [[Chinese characters|Chinese]], [[Latin script|Latin]], [[Jawi script|Jawi]] ([[Malay language|Malay]]), [[Devanagari]], [[Khmer script|Khmer]] and [[Khom Thai script|Khom]], [[Tai Tham script|Lanna]], and [[Burmese script|Burmese]] scripts  in banknotes and coins, as seen. The reason is not clear, though it is a common understanding that it is to ease the facilicitation of trade within Siam. It could also be the case that at the time, the capital, Bangkok (Phra Nakhon) was still a multi-cultural city, so as to be more inclusive, the government added various other language onto the currency – though by the second series after the decimalization in the 1900s, the currency was all but monolingual.

{{lang-zh|c=圓|p=yuán|labels=no}} ({{lang|th|บาท}}): This character was use during the times of [[Mongkut|Rama IV]] to represent baht, though this was phased out by another character which is in partially and informally used today. The only occurrence of this character was in Rama IV's banknote series.

{{lang-zh|t=銖|s=铢|p=zhū|labels=no|first=t}} ({{lang|th|บาท}}): This character was in use from 1868–1925 officially on banknotes to represent baht. It is still in use today unofficially to refer to the Thai baht in general, as in {{lang|zh|泰銖}} or {{lang|zh|泰铢}}.

{{lang-zh|t=錢|s=銭|p=qián|labels=no|first=t}} ({{lang|th|สลึง}}): This character was in use from 1851–1908 officially on banknotes and coins to represent salueng.

{{lang-zh|c=方|p=fāng|labels=no}} ({{lang|th|เฟื้อง}}): This character was in use from 1851–1908 officially on banknotes and coins to represent fueang.

The notation for these Chinese character are written like they are in Thai, though there is a caveat: it is written right to left, as was the convention back then, so one baht is written {{lang|zh|圓壹}} or {{lang|zh|銖壹}}, if there are smaller units involved the notation can write like such: {{lang|zh|方銭參圓壹}} for one baht, three salueng, and one fueang.