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 NUMERALS

SOO MUH.

Small text.
 * 1) E soo MUH.

2J, # Seaou séay.

Large text. Ta séay.

J& }

Weighing character.


 * #: Ma tsze.

Yih

-

urh

-

H

san

E



Sze

JH



WOO



ſhi

X 4 A 5
 * 1
 * 2
 * 8

É

l

6

ts'eih

2's +:



==

7

pah

/



== 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