MICR Code: 500222008

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0cvb008
MICR Code: 500222008
Address: Mahavir Hospital Premises, A.C. Gaurds, Hyderabad Pin-500004
City: Hyderabad
District: Hyderabad
State: Andhra Pradesh

MICR is acronym of Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. Basically it is a character-recognition technology used by the banking industry to ease the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents.

Generally MICR code is nine character long. First three charaters represent city, next three charaters represents bank name and last three charaters represents bank branch.

Let's decode MICR code 500222008.

  • In this case first three codes 500 is city code and it represents city Hyderabad.
  • Next three characters 222 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Mahavir Hospital Premises, A.C. Gaurds, Hyderabad Pin-500004.

The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your

  1. Bank account statement
  2. Cheques

Please examine below sample cheque for more details

I hope this clears doubts.