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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] 8 points 6 months ago (8 children)

When I went to China about 5 years ago, all the numbers were Arabic numbers. Not sure if this is a regional thing, or if this is a more recent development.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Using Chinese characters instead of Arabic numerals is the equivalent of spelling out numbers in English.

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