〡〢〣〤〥〦〧〨〩 is a Suzhou code, which means 〡〢〣〤〥〦〧〨〩, which is the "commercial number" among Chinese folk. It can be found in the "Character Map" and is called "Hangzhou Symbol", which may be a mistake. If there are still such marks in Suzhou or Hangzhou today, you have to ask the locals or even local businessmen to find out. But it is said that such pricing methods can still be seen among small merchants and hawkers in Hong Kong and Taiwan. With such a price tag, there must be many local people who know it. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was also very common in Guangzhou. It is said that this kind of "business number" is widely used in business, especially in fruit stalls, and is written vertically in accounting books. Because it is very visual and easy to learn and master, in those days, even if the hawker was illiterate, he could write it with flying skills, so it became his "commercial number". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the decline of industry and commerce, it was probably destroyed together with the "Four Olds".

According to the online introduction, Suzhou Mazi is mostly used in business situations such as traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, tailor shops, hardware stores, slaughterhouses, etc. It is a symbol used to express quantity in our country in old times, also called grass code and business code.

Symbols that look magical are actually worthless. 〡 〢 〣 〤 〥 〦 〧 〨 〩 Ten, corresponding to our current Chinese characters one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ninety. To facilitate everyone’s detailed understanding, I have posted an introductory text from the Internet.

1. Just write one vertical character;

2. Two vertical characters: 〢

3. Three vertical characters: 〣

4 , is a cross: 〤

5, written as 〥, is actually just the word 5 written cursorily and quickly

6, written as a dot plus a horizontal line, one of the dots represents 5: 〦

7, written as one point plus two lines: 〧

8, written as one point plus three lines: 〨

9, written as "jiu" in cursive: 〩

20, two "ten" characters: twenty

In addition, zero is still 0.

When it comes to strokes, they are not much simpler than Chinese characters. But he is more vivid, because such expression should be based on the application of calculation. Ancient people used an abacus to count. The upper point is like dialing a number on the abacus, which means five, so 〦 is six and 〧 is seven, which is easy to understand. It should be noted that when 〡 〢 〣 meet, the middle will become a horizontal stroke. Otherwise, "| | |" will not know whether it is one hundred and eleven, three, twenty-one, or twelve. For example, 2134 should be written as 〢一〣〤, and 32 should be written as 〣二.

If you understand these principles, it will be much easier to solve this "history" question in the first year of high school. (A)〤〧廿, is 4720, (B)〣〤〧 is 347, (C)〩〢〦 is 926, (D)〥〩〨 is 598, so choose (D).

Of course, the actual use of these symbols must be combined with the vertical writing characteristics of ancient account books. Otherwise, if you read one number more or less, the difference is too big, and it is usually recorded as two lines.

For example, if the price is 5 cents and 9 cents, you will write:

〥〩

▲

This ▲ represents "corner". The pointed end is usually placed below the middle between 〥 and 〩.

Another example: If the price is 5 yuan and 80 cents, you can write:

〥〨

●

This ● represents "yuan (round)" )", it is usually placed below the middle between 〥 and 〨.

For another example, if the price is 3908 yuan, you can write:

〣〩0〨

Qian

When it is said that the word Qian should be placed 〣The following may be due to different customs in different places. However, the size must be marked

on the lower right side (or below) of the first digit so that you can understand it at a glance.

Some people say that such symbols are the "black language" of industry and commerce, which fully demonstrates the opacity of the country's industry and commerce. This is an injustice. This accounting method is very intuitive, easy to learn and understand. If you want to hide something from customers, writing a few Arabic numerals was the skill in ancient times.