A Word a Day — ‘hundred’
Posted on Monday, March 17th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
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To remember this, picture this scenario: you’re a naughty kid and teacher has made you stay behind after class. For punishment, you have to write ‘I will not be naughty’ 100 times! When you finally finish, you scream BYE! and run out the door, vowing to do something even more mischievous the next day for revenge…
While Westerners use zeros to represent powers of ten, traditional Chinese has special characters for various powers. Over the next days we’ll be looking a few of these. Today we start with the character for ‘hundred’. I think you’ll breath a sigh of relief when you see how easy it is to write and say.
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