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"Hachiroku ??????" <Trueno@??????????.gts> wrote in message
news:VV_7h.1961$Kw2.624@trndny05...[color=blue]
> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 01:10:40 -0600, Ray O wrote:
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>> "Hachiroku ??????" <Trueno@??????????.gts> wrote in message
>> news:QAR7h.1575$gJ1.396@trndny09...[color=darkred]
>>> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:59:41 -0600, Ray O wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Hachiroku ????" <Trueno@AE86.gts> wrote in message
>>>> news:6RQ7h.1942$Kw2.186@trndny05...
>>>>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:12:19 +0000, Hachiroku ???? wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Anybody read Kanji?
>>>>>
>>>>> Seems top work in the reply, also...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Actually, that is not Kanji. It is Katakana and says "Hachiroku."
>>>> There
>>>> is
>>>> no Kanji for hachi roku so the correct way to write it in Japanese
>>>> would
>>>> be
>>>> numerically.
>>>
>>> AHA! Ray is correct! (As well he should be) since in Japanese they use
>>> Arabic numbers! I had forgotten that, didn't I? ;)
>>>
>>>
>>> But, take a look at my 'new' tag![/color]
>>
>> The tag doesn't make sense (at least to me it doesn't). Keep in mind
>> that I
>> can't read more than around 20 Kanji characters but I can read Hiragana
>> and
>> Katakana. BTW, there are Japanese/Chinese numbers.[/color]
>
>
> Oh. As far as I knew, the Japanese and Chinese used Arabic.
> It seemed kind of odd to me that they wouldn't have developed their own
> numbering system.
>
> I know on my early cars the nameplates were in Japanese and English, and
> the numbers were all the same, so by logical deduction you could figure
> out what some of the characters meant.[/color]

I figured out on my Carina that Toyota was on the radiator cap as To yo ta
The To charachter looks sort of like a T, the Yo looks like a backward E and
Ta looks a lot like a squared off cursive F. Since I can't do Japanese on
this computer. . . .

Charles of Schaumburg