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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the final one is the symbol for "five" and it takes 5 strokes to draw. it'd be like drawing a 5 one segment at a time in an eight segment number display as the tally marks.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You are wrong. This is the character for "correct". "Five" is similar. Both have five strokes.

五 = five

正 = correct, positive

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

“Five” 五 has four strokes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Oh, you are right. It's been a couple of decades since I actually had to write Japanese by hand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So then why aren't they using '五' to make the tally marks?

Trends are weird.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Because it actually has four strokes. The "L" in the middle is one stroke