A descriptive phrase even a baka would understand.sei no moji de kazoeru 正の文字で数える To count with the 正 letter.A technical term literally nobody uses.To refer to the method of counting with a tally mark: sei no kanji 正の漢字 The 'sei' Chinese character.Tally marks are marked in the pizzas sold column. The seller marked the number of pizzas sold on each day with tally marks instead of counting. For example, the chart given below is made by a pizza seller which shows one column of 'day' and the other column of 'pizzas sold on each day'. Because sei is one of the readings of the kanji Lets understand the tally mark chart with help of an example.After you have made a mark through four marks, you start again with a mark. After there are four marks, a mark crosses through them, which equals five. To refer to the tally mark itself you could say: Tally marks are used to count or keep score. That is, although the Japanese tally mark is based off a character that's used to spell words like seigi 正義, "justice," when 正 is used as a tally mark, it's no longer spelling words, so it doesn't need to be neatly aligned in lines, and you could place them diagonally if you wanted to. it's a symbol drawn somewhere for counting, so the direction text is written is irrelevant. It's true that Japanese text can be written horizontally or vertically, but the tally mark isn't really text. Vertical or HorizontalĪfter counting to 5, you need to start a new tally mark, so you put it to the right to the first one, horizontally, or below the first one, vertically? It doesn't seem to matter. The exact number counted ends up not being very important most of the time. Ironically, in manga and anime, it's generally unnecessary to know the stroke order: the tally marks merely convey that something is being counted at all, the more tally marks the higher the number counted.
#Tally mark plus#
The images show 2, 4, and 6 days counted: T, 正 without bottom line, and 正 plus a single horizontal stroke under it.Context: Rudeus Greyrat ルーデウス・グレイラット gets thrown into a prison cell in a forest, begins counting days in a very stereotypical way by carving tally marks on the tree (normally one would do this on a wall, but this cell has none).Anime: Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 無職転生 ~異世界行ったら本気だす~ (Episode 14, Altered)