On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:58:24PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> The kanji dictionary I have handy gives non-numeric translations for
> several of the numeric kanji, though it might be something that gets lost
> in translation.
Ah, OK; sure, there can be numerics with non-numeric meanings, but not
the other way around.
> Some of the examples for ya (and I don't have the Unicode
> set handy to look up the code points, alas) are "vegetable store" (yaoya)
That's weird.
> and "afternoon refreshments" (oyatsu).
Hrm. About the same as "Elevenses". Or maybe that's a .ukian concept. :)
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