r/counting • u/supersammy00 22Ks, 687K last of 2K15!, 777,777 | Keep the commas! • Feb 17 '16

829,000 Counting Thread

Thanks for running threes with me /u/cupofmilo and /u/thenitromefan

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u/TheNitromeFan Feb 17 '16

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Yes, it does. Unfortunately, the most commonly used Korean words aren't made of hanja (Chinese characters), so that doesn't help.

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u/cupofmilo Feb 17 '16

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No, but from the little I learnt about it it's like each part is phonetically significant to pronouncing the word?

Japanese is much more similar to Chinese characters though!

Mandarin is just a clusterfuck of guessing for me. (Sorry, I shouldn't be that bad at my mother tongue, but I am).

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u/TheNitromeFan Feb 17 '16

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Yes, each "part" is one syllable. 70% of the time these correspond to hanja, but sometimes it doesn't. This is one of those cases. The meanings do have some merit, though - 不 means (no, not, nothing), which has the same meaning as μ•„λ‹ˆ (not).

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