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Chinese numbers (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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To be fair, zero is a complicated number

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[–] Frozengyro 17 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Japanese pronounces some numbers different depending on what you are counting. Is this the same for Chinese?

[–] SourDrink 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I think there are certain phrases found in different dialects of Chinese. In Cantonese, the formal way of reading twenty is 十二, but the colloquial term would be 廿.

Edit: Should be 二十

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

十二 not 二十?

[–] SourDrink 3 points 2 months ago

Whoops! You got that right. Should be 二十

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