Posted by The Lostprophet
basicly i need a favour. i need someone to convert 1337 into japanese symbols. if someone can help pm me asap, cheers
Posted by LesleyAnn
nearly!
http://www.jp41.com/kanji/1337.html
Posted by blackspot
a direct translation of the digits 1337 would be:
while if you want the actual numeric value 1,337 it should be:
Posted by The Lostprophet
cheers mate, thats what i needed,
thanks
Posted by ofiaich
Hi!
Many Japanese would write the 1 at the beginning.
一千三百三十七
Ofiaich
Posted by ayejatt
thats exactly the same in chinese!!
Posted by ofiaich
Hi!
Yes it is!
Japan did not have a writing system, so about 1600 -1500 years ago, they borrowed the Chinese system, and gradually altered it for their own needs.
Of course, I have simplified this......
Ofiaich
Posted by blackspot
exactly! japanese characters are derived from chinese -- they call it the "kanji" or the writing during the Kang dynasty (or something like that).
Posted by *Jojo*
This thread is educational !
Well how about translating: 1, 987, 223, 765, 776, 513, 221, 982, 173, 294, 229, 009, 918, 243, 111, 666, 333, 761, 916, 822 . . into Japanese character then 
Posted by tranced
there you go, jojo.
Posted by *Jojo*
On 2007-09-20 03:30:04, tranced wrote:
there you go, jojo.
. . . where's my ANSWER then - transd
Posted by ofiaich
HI!
@blackspot! I think so too, I think it is Han letters, 漢字 Kan Ji .
'Kan' means China or Sino in Japanese and 'Ji' means letter, character or word.
It can also mean a section of a village, and then it is pronounced 'aza'
"*Jojo* send the money via ofiaich_pal and I can do that for you !!
but you can also do the simple way for yourself !
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
零 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十
or use these for the longer way - thousand 千 hundred 百
so your second example is 987 九八七 九百八十七
It is useful to know both ways, because you can ask for your room key in both ways !
Ofiaich
[ This Message was edited by: ofiaich on 2007-09-20 07:54 ]
Posted by *Jojo*
@hofia -
just wanting to know who can write those ga-ZILLIONS of digits in the shortest presentation - ever
Posted by ofiaich
@*jojo*
Who is " hofia "?
Ofiaich
Posted by The Lostprophet
very helpfull guys, this is turning into an education thread lol
Posted by blackspot
It is very useful for both japanese and chinese learners -- numeric system is the same AFAIK
ofiaich already mentioned the basic digits, just combine the following as needed:
10 = 十
100 = 百
1000 = 千
10,000 = 万
100,000,000 = 億
how to use it is simple: just add the basic digit to these characters as an appropriate multiplier, example:
237 = 2 x 100 + 3 x 10 + 7 = 二百三十七
25,748 = 2 x 10,000 + 5 x 1000 + 7 x 100 + 4 x 10 + 8 = 二万五千七百四十八
for numbers greater than 10,000 you will use an appropriate number from 1 to 9,999 as a multiplier for the 10,000, it's like the comma is every 4 digits not like in english where the comma is in every 3 digits, example:
125,000 = 12 x 10,000 （where 12 = 10 + 2) + 5 x 1000 = 十二万五千
3,600,000 = 360 x 10,000 (where 360 = 3 x 100 + 6 x 10) = 三百六十万
it's a little confusing at first but you'll get used to it if you keep practicing
[ This Message was edited by: blackspot on 2007-09-20 09:48 ]