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Chinese numbers (sh.itjust.works)
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To be fair, zero is a complicated number

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[–] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

That's super interesting! I barely know any Chinese and probably just assumed the characters were for language instead of numbers.
The public transit system used arabic numbers (maybe as well as the Chinese characters?), so at least that was easy to navigate lol