Timeline for 壱, 弐, 参 vs 一, 二, 三
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| Oct 11, 2011 at 0:17 | comment | added | Matt | Yeah, the simple characters came first and are pretty obviously representational. The more difficult character set for numbers was adopted later. Also, it might be useful to add that the harder characters were adopted for official use specifically because they are harder to alter. Changing 一 to 十 is easy; changing 壱 (or 壹!) to 拾 is not. | |
| Oct 10, 2011 at 16:16 | comment | added | Dave | don't know where the representation of 1, 2 and 3 as respectively 1, 2 and 3 horizontal strokes, came from? Erm... I'm willing to take a wild guess :-P | |
| Oct 10, 2011 at 11:59 | history | answered | Axioplase | CC BY-SA 3.0 |