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I'm trying to figure out on how to read this properly

火日参拾月参

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The translation is supposed to be

Monday, March 13th

Now maybe it's because I'm still confused on what the correct reading direction is (left-to-right or righ-to-left), but I still don't understand why it's supposed to be "Monday".

I (think I) do know the following

月参 = month 3 = March

参拾 = 3 1 = 13

But then I'm left with

火日 = ?

I tried looking up just the days of the week...

火曜日 = Tuesday ; 月曜日 = Monday

...but that confused me even further.

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  • It was from official translations, both Crunchyroll and BD. Guess they can make mistakes as well ;S
    – YTZ
    Commented Feb 28, 2019 at 18:46
  • They are absolutely full of mistakes.
    – Darius Jahandarie
    Commented Mar 1, 2019 at 4:17

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I believe it's written right-to-left. After changing the direction, it's:

参月 拾参日 火

Or:

三月 十三日 火

Which reads "March", "13th (day of month)", "Tuesday", respectively. Perhaps the translator was also confused :)

As you probably know, the standard format of dates in Japanese is month 月 day 日, optionally followed by the day of the week. For example, today is "2月28日(木)".

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    右から読むのね～ってそらそうか・・
    – chocolate ♦
    Commented Feb 28, 2019 at 6:47
  • @naruto Thank you for your answer and the additional information. I already had a hunch that it was supposed to be tuesday (because of the 火) but I didn't really want to think that the official translations were wrong.
    – YTZ
    Commented Feb 28, 2019 at 18:43

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