• @[email protected]
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      157 months ago

      I may be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the final one is the symbol for “five” and it takes 5 strokes to draw. it’d be like drawing a 5 one segment at a time in an eight segment number display as the tally marks.

      • @[email protected]
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        247 months ago

        You are wrong. This is the character for “correct”. “Five” is similar. Both have five strokes.

        五 = five

        正 = correct, positive

      • @[email protected]
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        117 months ago

        I still don’t like it. It’s not a logical placement of strokes. No I don’t care that the Kanji ultimately means ‘5’.

        I don’t like it. It’s aesthetically displeasing with no logic.

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s only aesthetically displeasing to you because you come from a western background. For someone used to say mandarin it is quite aesthetically pleasing. The final bottom stroke “closes” the set in a satisfying way that is consistent Chinese character stroke order.

          Some things are culturally relative. Aesthetics is one of those things.

            • @[email protected]
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              147 months ago

              The world is a wonderful and diverse place. Looking at your comment history I see some slurs that, to me at least, hint that you are a younger person.

              My main advice to have empathy, be accepting and realize that many people live their own lives most of which are very different than yours.

              People can learn, change, and live unique and meaningful lives. :)

              • @[email protected]
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                17 months ago

                Oh I’m just spouting off occasionally with hyperbole, rants and un-serious trolling.

                Don’t sweat it.

                • @[email protected]
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                  27 months ago

                  I’m glad. :) And worry not. I do try to make the world a better place where I can, but I understand that I can’t get too invested in every attempt. In this case no sweat was involved. Just empathy.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    17 months ago

                    TBH I actually have a lot of empathy but I also love going off half-cocked online. Probably as a release valve for my inner demons which don’t get exercised enough in daily life.

                    I’m rarely actually serious (apart from my hatred of the disfunction-by-design of the RightWing) but it’s easy for that to get lost in translation.

                    Poe’s law etc.

          • @[email protected]
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            17 months ago

            I use n. American one but find the France/Brazil one makes Sense. The Asian looks aesthetically displaying but not for the train you stated.

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          No logic…unless you use the language it’s written in. You’re only looking at it from your perspective and saying it’s ugly and makes no sense. Because the language, to you makes no sense because you haven’t learned it.

        • @pantyhosewimp
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          17 months ago

          There has to be inconsistent things like in all languages to give comedians material. Just like English-speaking comedians can make jokes about driving on a parkway and parking in a driveway. Chinese comedians have surely made jokes about tally mark 5 vs the symbol for 5.

    • @[email protected]
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      97 months ago

      It’s the character for ‘correct’, which doesn’t really explain much. Best I can figure it’s just that it’s a common character with five strokes in a satisfying right-down-right-down-right order.

    • Rentlar
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      17 months ago

      It’s simply a 5 stroke character with orthogonal lines: 正

      The reason why it’s separate is just that this is the traditional drawing order to write that character.