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submitted 4 months ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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To be fair, zero is a complicated number

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[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 60 points 4 months ago

I'm sure the chinese have equivalent memes about having to learn arabic numbers, at least you don't have to use it in written out numbers, 20 is 二十, two-ten, 200 is 二百, two-hundred, 2000 is 二千, two-thousand, 200,000 is 二十万, two-hundred-thousand.

There less memorizing irregular words like twelve and X-teen and converting 30 to thirty, since it's all pronounced as written.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

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

[-] SourDrink@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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