Another good example for homophones ... there are many SUSHIs (pity, I love SUSHI )
Japanese Numbers, in ON- and KUN reading
(Kanji 漢字 - The Word Characters!):
- 0: REI; ZERO (→nickname of a Japanese fighter plane in WW2)
- 1: ICHI, hitotsu
- 2: NI, futatsu
- 3: SAN, mittsu
- 4: SHI, yotsu
- 5: GO, itsutsu
- 6: ROKU, mutsu
- 7: SHICHI, nana
- 8: HACHI, yatsu
- 9: KYUU, kokonotsu
- 10: JUU, tou
- 20: NI-JUU, hatachi (Japanese legal age!)
- 100: KYAKU, momo
- 1.000: SEN, chi
- 10.000: MAN, yorozu
- 100.000.000: OKU (= MAN square)
Counting the Xth is done by adding X-BAN or X-BANME. That´s it.
NOTE!:
- 1.000: SEN = Thousand
- 10.000: MAN
- 100.000: JUU-MAN = 10 * 10.000
- 1.000.000: HYAKU-MAN = 100 * 10.000 = 1 Million
- 10.000.000: SEN-MAN = 1.000 * 10.000 = 10 Millions
- 100.000.000: OKU = 100 Millions
- 1.000.000.000: JUU-OKU = 1 Billion
- 10.000.000.000: KYAKU-OKU = 10 Billions
- 100.000.000.000: SEN-OKU = 100 Billions
- 1.000.000.000.000: MAN-OKU = 1 Trillion
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