the market numerals were widely used in the, market, in the past. now perhaps only in HK’s markets.

scroll down the wiki page to Suzhou/Huama“

And don’t forget the fancy forms of the sino/japanese numerals. You may actually see these on handwritten receipts when you buy something expensive in cash. The idea is that the standard numerals can be altered with a couple of strokes (making 1 into 3 is obviously trivial), so they write them totally differently in bills of sale and contracts.

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Okay, okay. So it’s not really that difficult. But 100 points to any non-Chinese who can tell me all of those kanji w/out using a dictionary.

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You see those used in combination with European numbers. There are also some older forms that aren’t really used that often. If we’re lucky, I’m sure Mutant Frog can enlighten us.

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