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NUMERALS

數目 SOO MUH.

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Small text.		Large text.	Weighing character.
小寫 Seaou sëay.		大寫 Ta sëay.	碼字 Ma tsze.
Yih	一	壹	〡	1

1. E soo MUH.

Small text.

2J, # Seaou séay.

Large text. Ta séay.

J& }

Weighing character.

1. #: Ma tsze.

Yih

-

urh

-

H

san

E

Sze

JH

WOO

1. .

ſhi

| 1 || 2 ||| 8 X 4 A 5

É

l

6

ts'eih

2's +:

==

7

pah

/

1. |

== 8

kew

ju -i-

33.

×

lèuh

shih

Note.

9

+ 10

The “small text” is used in common, as our 1, 2, 3, &c.;

the “large text,” when accuracy or security is an object, as in filling the blank in a cheque. The “weighing characters” are employed

in keeping accounts, and then used exactly as figures are by us. '

Fj léang, when applied to per sons, animals, or things, and often to money: Ex. Fj ſ; JV lèang kojin, two men; Fij 4: # + lèang chih choo tsze, two pigs; § lèang pih k'wae ts'éen, two hundred dollars. The word two is also expressed by

A