A question for speakers/writers of Japanese and Chinese

[Susan Fischer]

No: there are special kanji for numbers. For example, 61 would be  $BO;==0l (B
(if you set your character coding to Japanese)

Mark A Mandel wrote:

>On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Mike Morgan wrote:
>
>#(almost?) always writen in hiragana). Numbers are written either in kanji or
>#in romaji ('Roman' letters, not to be confused with our Roman numerals).
>
>Surely you don't mean the letter string, e.g., 'three'!! Are you talking
>about Hindu-Arabic numerals (which we usually call "Arabic" in English),
>the digits 0 through 9? I wouldn't be surprised if those are comprised
>in the definition of "romaji", but then romaji is a superset of the
>Roman alphabet.
>
>-- Mark A. Mandel
>

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