Re: USAGE: writing the date in Chinese

2008/8/22 Aidan Grey <taalenmaple@...>:
> I think you had it right the first time - calendars always say "二" anyway. I
> believe (my chinese is rusty) that 兩 is only used for actual objects and
> pairs...
Well, my Chinese is less than rusty since I don't actually know
Chinese. :)  But based on the descriptions I've read, for spelling out
numbers such as "two thousand" you use  兩 instead of 二, which is only
used for 2, 20 (if you don't use the separate symbol that means 20 all
by itself) and optionally 200, which can go either way.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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