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Chinese numbers (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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.