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In English, if we're tallying something on a piece of paper, etc., we usually
write a vertical line to count 1, and then when you reach four of them, you
cross it with a horizontal line to mean 5, and repeat. I saw a Japanese paper
that seemed to be a similar concept, but the kanji 一 seemed to be used for 1,
and the kanji 正 seemed to be used for 5 (there weren't any other numbers
shown). What's the whole system in Japanese?
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Tally Marks in Japanese?
The conventional Japanese tally follows the stroke order for 正. So if the
total were 8, it'd look like [正下], and if it were 20, it'd be [正正正正]

This link shows an animation for the stroke order:
<http://kakijun.jp/page/sei200.html>
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