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  2. Japanese numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese numerals are the number names used in Japanese. In writing, ... 10 44: 10 48: 10 52 (or 10 56) 10 56 (or 10 64) 10 60 (or 10 72) 10 64 (or 10 80) 10 68 ...

  3. Yakudoshi - Wikipedia

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    A yakudoshi festival is held annually at Hachiman shrines in the Kansai region of Japan on January 18 and 19. During the two-day period, people entering either a maeyaku or yakudoshi year attend the shrine to undergo a harae ritual called yakubarai (厄払い). The ceremony involves a priest reciting a prayer whilst waving a haraegushi above ...

  4. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    List of numeral system topics. Numeral prefix – Prefix derived from numerals or other numbers. Radix – Number of digits of a numeral system. Radix economy – Number of digits needed to express a number in a particular base. Table of bases – 0 to 74 in base 2 to 36.

  5. Japanese superstitions - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese share superstitions with other Asian cultures, particularly the Chinese, with whom they share significant historical and cultural ties. The unluckiness of the number four is one such example, as the Japanese word for "four" 四 romaji: shi is a homophone for "death" kanji: 死. The same is true for Chinese, hanzi: 死 pinyin: sǐ ...

  6. Counting rods - Wikipedia

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    Rod numeral place value from Yongle Encyclopedia: 71,824 Japanese counting board with grids A checker counting board diagram in an 18th-century Japanese mathematics textbook Counting rod numerals in grids in a Japanese mathematic book. Counting rods represent digits by the number of rods, and the perpendicular rod represents five. To avoid ...

  7. Japanese numeral - Wikipedia

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    To its plural form: This is a redirect from a singular noun to its plural form.. Redirects of this sort exist for reader convenience in cases of singular–plural pairs. It is also used for "false singulars", wherein the plural or plural-looking form is better attested in usage, such that the normal "prefer the singular" Wikipedia naming convention is not followed.

  8. Telephone numbers in Japan - Wikipedia

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    11 Sapporo 138 Hakodate 166 Asahikawa 17-7 or 172 Aomori 18-8 Akita 19-6 Morioka 22 Sendai 23-6 Yamagata 24-5 Fukushima 24-6 Iwaki 24-9 Kōriyama 25 Niigata 26 Nagano 27-2 Maebashi 27-3 Takasaki 28-6 Utsunomiya 3 Tokyo (23 Special wards), Komae 4-29 Tokorozawa 4-70 Kamogawa 4-71 Kashiwa 42-6 Hachiōji 42-7 Machida, Sagamihara 43 Chiba 44 ...

  9. 12 (number) - Wikipedia

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    Name. Twelve is the largest number with a single-syllable name in English.Early Germanic numbers have been theorized to have been non-decimal: evidence includes the unusual phrasing of eleven and twelve, the former use of "hundred" to refer to groups of 120, and the presence of glosses such as "tentywise" or "ten-count" in medieval texts showing that writers could not presume their readers ...