Could someone explain to me why do Japanese use the kanji 正 when they count something, e.g how… - Feed Post by sackrow

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  jimhaku

  It's for a count of five, it just has five strokes. No meaning to it.
  

  March 31, 2015 at 2:45am
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  sackrow

  Ah, thank you

  March 31, 2015 at 2:57am
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  mog86uk

  It's the same as in English using tally marks for counting, just the Chinese way of writing the tally marks using kanji.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_marks#Clustering
  http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A3#Usage_notes

  March 31, 2015 at 3:04am
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  M3gadriel

  Oh cool I didn't know this thanks, I was wondering why there was this Kanji on the board when someone made a vote

  March 31, 2015 at 9:59pm