Chinese numbers

Same, and not having to remember different versions of words for tense and gender is great. Where Chinese gets you back though, is measure words. Is a can of beans many 颗? 粒? One 包? Oh I was supposed to remember 罐?

I like how in French it's almost the same as in English. Monday = Moon Day = Lunar Day = Lundi
Tuesday = Tyr's Day = Mars' Day (both being the god of war) = Mardi

This seems like it would be difficult for the visually impaired.

I lived in Korea for a while where they also do the ten thousand thing. I got used to it for numbers up to about ten million, but then would get quickly lost.

Since everybody was making a couple million won a month, knowing numbers that big was necessary.

Shhhh they don't need to know that yet.

Yeah, every time I see it i think "man"

Same, my brain can't comprehend the counting behind that

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

No, but whenever you have something that's countable (even if it's just 1), you have to do <number> <measure word> <thing>, so instead of "I have a ticket" or "we want 2 waters", you have to do "I have 1 <measure word for flat things> ticket" or "I(plural) want 2 <measure word for cups> water".

There's a generic measure word, but I think it's seen as improper to use it.

the number 2 is said "liǎng" more commonly; it's like saying "a couple" but more strictly. "èr" is used for counting or maths

Afaik, no. Japanese either uses 音読み onyomi = Chinese reading (literally "sound reading", 音 = sound, 読み = reading) and 訓読み Kunyomi = Japanese reading (訓 has multiple kanji meanings. I learned it as "instruction". Sites list the meanings as 訓 = instruction, Japanese character reading, explanation, read) for words that have kanji (Chinese characters). The original Chinese characters don't have a "Japanese reading" afaik. They are Chinese after all.

Bro first of all, no one should ever freeze a gyro, second, will you please elaborate because that is 100% interesting

What the fuck

It's literally "crysanthemum", but that makes it funnier that the other meaning is arsehole. Somebody obviously decided they look similar. Not specifically a male arsehole, mind.

干爆我的菊花

This does not literally mean "explode my crysanthemum flower".

Ultimately that's the origin of the character. Although it's quite common to see "〇" in written shorthand when 零 is being used as a middle or final zero in a number otherwise written in characters, like 906 could be written as 九零六 or 九〇六.

To not have or be without, more of a verb, somewhat literary.

Holy shit.. That means fonts that differentiate Zero from Capital O with a dot or line are technically false...

一 (one) also means top (in gay contexts). It's because 0 looks like a hole and 1 looks like a penis.

Hmmm, like death? as in cease to exist? Very interesting anyways.

How do they decide what the complicated character for 7 should be? Why does it include the symbol of a tree? Can natives derive the meaning of a new symbol by its components or are they just as clueless as we are until they learn the word?

Nope, these are bank numerals for banknotes and checks

That's super interesting! I barely know any Chinese and probably just assumed the characters were for language instead of numbers.
The public transit system used arabic numbers (maybe as well as the Chinese characters?), so at least that was easy to navigate lol

Wow! Uppercase numbers. Fascinating.

So the uppercase numbers include phonetic? They look each so different.

That's definitely the case since I can't read Chinese lol