Re: intrinsic advantage of Latin alphabet over bopomofo (for Chinese)??

Oliver Cromm wrote:

* ekkilu@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


"Yuan" is NOT the name of the
currency in Chinese. To be precise, in Chinese texts and in Chinese
speech, people would use something like "Renminbi 25 yuan", or "Gangbi
33 yuan" for Hong Kong dollars, or "Sintaibi 46 yuan" for New Taiwan
Dollars.

So is it a counter word?

It is one way of looking at it. Or you can say <RMB> is the name
of the scale/system and <yuan> that of the unit; analogous to
"20 degrees Fahrenheit" (華氏 20 度 in Chinese -- the synxtax
parallels 人民幣 20 元).

Tak
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