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@urtellas They're actually Indian numerals. From the relevant Wikipedia page: "They are descended from the Hindu-Arabic numeral system developed by Indian mathematicians, in which a sequence of digits such as "975" is read as a numeral. The Indian numerals were adopted by the Persian mathematicians in India, and passed on to the Arabs further west."
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@urtellas that is not quite true actually. 一二三四五六七八九十 is the "normal" way of writing numbers, 壹贰叁肆伍陆柒捌玖 and 拾 (which u forgot to mention) is the way of writing numbers on banknotes, checks etc. (comparable to writing "one" instead of "1").
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@marcuslaughton ur a dirty naker haa
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中国是像我母亲的十二英寸公鸡同性恋....笑话!搞乱真的..
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Hmm I just thought I should mention that the characters 壹贰叁肆伍陆柒捌玖零 aren't necessarily traditional characters. Rather, they are used when dealing with numbers financially, such as in cheques and share markets.
Writing in this way makes it more difficult to manipulate the numbers. It is very easy to change the character 一 to 三 by adding a few strokes to it.
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字这么难看也敢教中文!
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@urtellas 拾 不見了
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Я вельмі люблю гэты мову
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@urtellas are classical characters very hard to seeonly for those who don't know them?
一二三四五六七八九十零......simplified character
壹贰叁肆伍陆柒捌玖零......classical character
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 Arabic numerals
urtellas 3 years ago 9
not similar. Japanese kanji IS chinese. back then china was the major trendsetter of the east. most of asia (ie japan; korea) either borrowed or was inspired by their culture. kanji literally means "Han characters".
azn103100 3 years ago 3