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write all of the numbers on top of each other then scribble on them. does that look anything like zero? i don't know kanji, i'm just understanding my own bad handwriting and trying to understand how they'd get there
nope, doesn't come from that
here's the kanji breakdown according to kakimashou.com (note that kanji is stolen from Chinese)
What about this one?
Listen here you little shit
Listen here you little dope /*6 yo me confused face
I'm at a loss for words
How many gears is that?
Just enough to make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
All of them.
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:.|:;
~~strikethrough~~ --> ~~strikethrough~~
Wasn't working on my client which is why I did it the way I did ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh, really? That's odd. What client?
It was Boost, but I just got an update the other day and now it's working so nevermind lol
Lol what a coincidence!
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1 = 壹 2 = 貳 3 = 參 4 = 肆 5 = 伍
These exist as well.
They're used in places where numbers should NOT be forged(i.e. bank documents...)
This is how they got their numeric meanings btw.
So 伍 is not 5, but five.
correct
Their math homework must take forever
I don't get 4. At least the kanji 4 looks very different
Yeaaaah, I don't know Chinese, but I've never seen a kanji of four horizontal lines, just 四 for 4
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Does 0 have a shorthand character as well?
Can be written as 〇
I'm not sure about China but in Japan there's 〇 which can be used like so: ハ〇〇円 to mean 800 yen, in a restaurant menu for example
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Sure, when you mean "zero" it may look a bit excessive. But it's quite adequate if you want to express "Void, the Dark Realm of Nothingness and End of All Things".
ps: Glory to ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ.
The concept of zero is scary, so it's a wizard shooting lightning from all orifices. Makes sense.
Under the arms and from the butt are the orifices?
armpitussy
You can go ahead and have that back
This got weird SO fast.
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No one has mentioned special 2, 两! It’s only for counting certain things.
Huh. I learnt that 两 is for counting everything. Er is only used if you spell out a number. Like you can't say "erge ren", must be "liangge ren". Maybe you're confusing it with another liang character, the measure for cars?
Sorry, I might be wrong, my Chinese isn't the best.
I mean... in English we also use different words, such as "pair" and "dozen", for some specific numbers.
that's because the english language numbers are based off of base 12, not base 10
But those are just words for "a group of a special size"
Some eastern languages have totally different counting words depending on WHAT you're counting. One set of number-words for flat things, another set for long things, another set for printed/bound things, another set for things with handles...
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well atleast this post + Comments taught me some Chinese.
And now an English lesson:
The past tense of teach is taught. Teached is not a word.
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You don't divide by 0 in Chinese because he'll jump off the page and kick your ass.
Japanese isn’t much better:
一、二、三… 四｡
It’s the same as in Chinese, so I wouldn’t expect it to be 😅
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Japanese enters the chat:
Left: numeral; middle: regular writing; final: certain formal and non-forgery usecases.
または in point 7 means either variant is OK
The last line says one can use the modern yen sign as well (though some would argue that it's bad manners in at least some situations, but I have no dog in that fight).
万 = 10k. Several countries use both 1k and 10k units (Japan traditionally was on the 10k side but had a lot of influence so now we see both a lot. A used car price might be 130万円 or something ( = 1,300,000 yen)
数字 通常の漢字 金額で使う旧字体（大字）
0 零 零
1 一 壱
2 二 弐
3 三 参
4 四 肆
5 五 伍
6 六 陸
7 七 柒（または 漆）
8 八 捌
9 九 玖
10 十 拾
100 百 佰
1k 千 仟
万 万 萬
円 円 圓（もしくは「円」のまま）
Chart from here that looks better: https://saiseich.com/business/kanji_kingaku/
We have a way of writing numbers in certain situations. Think of it like checks in the US where we write things in a certain way so that the numbers can't be easily changed to increase the value or something.
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"Three, Two, One... NOTHING"
scratches head in Mandarin
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