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I know that kanji numbers can be read using on and kun readings. Does the same
apply to Roman numerals?
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Do Roman numerals have on and kun readings?
It represents numbers 0 零 zero/rei 1 一 itsu 2 二 ni 3 三 san 4 四 yon/shi/yo 5 五
go 6 六 roku 7 七 shitsu/nana 8 八 hatsu 9 九 ku/kyuu 10 十 jyuu It represents
others a lot of... maybe 40+
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Roman numerals (ローマ数字 _rōma sūji_ ) represent **numbers**. It's the numbers
that have readings, no matter what numeral system you use to represent them.
Roman numerals are thus read according to the number they represent:

> [I]{いち}, [II]{に}, [III]{さん}, [I​V]{し・よん}, [V]{ご}, [VI]{ろく}, [VII]{なな・しち},
> [VIII]{はち}, [IX]{きゅう}, [X]{じゅう}, ..., [L]{ごじゅう}, ...

just like if you used 漢数字 _kansūji_ (一、二、三、四、…) or アラビア数字 _arabia sūji_ (1, 2,
3, 4, ...).

To refer to a Roman numeral, you could say ローマ数字の「じゅうろく」 for XVI.
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