Old Chinese Counting Rods

[Crissov]

/**
 * Unicode block “Ancient Chinese Digits” U+1D360–7F
 *
 * Ones: 𝍠 𝍡 𝍢 𝍣 𝍤  𝍥 𝍦 𝍧 𝍨 
 * Tens: 𝍩 𝍪 𝍫 𝍬 𝍭  𝍮 𝍯 𝍰 𝍱
 */
@counter-style counting-rods {
  system: additive;
  range: 1 99;
  additive-symbols: 90 '\1D371', 80 '\1D370', 70 '\1D36F', 60 '\1D36E', 
                    50 '\1D36D', 40 '\1D36C', 30 '\1D36B', 20 '\1D36A', 10 '\1D369', 
                     9 '\1D368',  8 '\1D367',  7 '\1D366',  6 '\1D365', 
                     5 '\1D364',  4 '\1D363',  3 '\1D362',  2 '\1D361',  1 '\1D360', 
}

[r12a]

@Crissov this looks interesting. Are you able provide some information about how this style is used in the wild? It's just that we're trying to limit new styles to those we can show are actually used, so it would be good to have some supporting information of that kind. Thanks.

[r12a]

Er, um. I just realised what this is. I was thinking of something else. So my guess is that it isn't in common use these days. I'll leave this open just a little longer in case you want to reply. Otherwise i assume that people can find it at your counter styles site, which i'm thinking of linking to.

[Crissov]

I would guess the same, but I don’t know for sure. It’s probably not used at all for list markers or pagination.

[upsuper]

As far as I know, nowadays Chinese people mostly use the ideographic tally marks for counting.

[r12a]

Ok, closing then. Thanks.