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To be fair, zero is a complicated number

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[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (10 children)

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

[–] SourDrink@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] SourDrink@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Whoops! You got that right. Should be 二十

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