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[cowofdoom78963]

⑨ translates into a bunch of clubs for me.

[Aklyon]

Is it supposed to be a 9 with a circle around it?

[Taco Dan]

That's what I see.

[fqllve]

Yes. It's a nine-ball.

Touhou reference.

[ein]

九丸。
Literally nine-circle.
Funny how similar the two are…

Meanwhile, death is made up of the radicals for death and spoon, and flower is grass, man, and spoon.

[fqllve]

What are radicals? Is it another word for characters themselves, or specific strokes or something?

[Taco Dan]

九丸。
Literally nine-circle.
Funny how similar the two are…

Meanwhile, death is made up of the radicals for death and spoon, and flower is grass, man, and spoon.

Spoon!

[Blargityblarg]

What are radicals? Is it another word for characters themselves, or specific strokes or something?

A radical is a part of kanji (Chinese writing or some Japanese) that is basically a pattern that gives some kind of meaning or connotation to a character, and is included in that character. Often they're just slightly squashed versions of other characters. F'rexample, the Chinese 'good', 'hao3' is the Chinese child character 'zi' next to the chinese woman character, 'nu', using them as radicals to form the character 'hao' (I can't remember the tones on the second and third characters, so I omitted them.) Radicals do not necessarily make up an entire character, but can be supplemented with non-character strokes.

My happy thing: Today I got a bank account, a Medicare number, and a job for the first time ever.

[smjjames]

九丸。
Literally nine-circle.
Funny how similar the two are…

Meanwhile, death is made up of the radicals for death and spoon, and flower is grass, man, and spoon.

Spoon? Are you kidding me on that?

[ein]

Yes, spoon.
死。
歹 ＆ ヒ。
Death and spoon.

[Gunner-Chan]

Death and spoon with wafflecone.

[KaguroDraven]

Death and Spoon......Killing someone with a spoon?

[Gunner-Chan]

DRAINAGE my dear boy.

DRAINAGE.

[Bauglir]

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[fqllve]

A radical is a part of kanji (Chinese writing or some Japanese) that is basically a pattern that gives some kind of meaning or connotation to a character, and is included in that character. Often they're just slightly squashed versions of other characters. F'rexample, the Chinese 'good', 'hao3' is the Chinese child character 'zi' next to the chinese woman character, 'nu', using them as radicals to form the character 'hao' (I can't remember the tones on the second and third characters, so I omitted them.) Radicals do not necessarily make up an entire character, but can be supplemented with non-character strokes.

My happy thing: Today I got a bank account, a Medicare number, and a job for the first time ever.

Congratulations on the first job. Those are awesome.

So tone is what the number after the character means, huh? Always wondered about that. So is tone 3 in Chinese flat? Because that's what it is in English. Of course, English isn't a highly tonal language, so it's clausal, not syllabic.