the japanese number grid
ichi, ni, san – numberwork japan
Complete the Japanese Number Grid.
There is no kanji numeral for ‘zero’, therefore the top right square remains blank. The kanji
numerals for the numbers from one to ten, one hundred and one thousand have already been
filled in for you. Please start from 11 in the “10” column.
In Japanese this is written ten and one ( ). (Remember that kanji script runs vertically.)
Continue to the bottom of the column, ten-nine. The next column is twenty, this is shown by
two and ten ( ). So for 21 you need the symbols for two, ten and one ( ).
Continue and complete the column. By the time you reach 99 the pattern will be obvious.
NB. Ten, hundred and thousand are expressed in one symbol.
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BY KIMIE MARKARIAN