Chinese Number Gesture
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I see a picture today, I will post it below. It shows how do Chinese people express numbers by gesture. I mean easily most people use fingers on one hand to represent numbers from 1 to 5, but how to express 6 to 10 on finger gesture? I have seen some military or SWAT hand signals, they can represent 1 to 10 by only one hand, but that is not the way we do every day.
This picture shows exactly what people show you 1 to 10 by one hand only. Maybe in some area it has little different, like I express 10 by make a fist(coz I want to use one hand), but that is what I see people do in Nanning.
How do you do this in your places?
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Hi
there are too many Chinese in Melbourne
So if I can’t beat them I join them
I go to live in Nanning with the beautiful Gui on the 25th Nov 2010
The white headed hairy old Brian
Great site that you are building, keep up the good job!
Two of these, 7 and 8 are wrong, according to what I learn from our ancestors as a child. 7 should be three fingers, thumb, second, and middle or 3rd) tough together, and 8 is like the 7 that you show here, but turn straight up. Number 10 can also be holding all the fingers back to form a fist.
Sorry, should have read your post first to make above comment.