Re:Attackers Used Look-Alike Domains to Steal $1M from a Chi...
by thaumasiotes on Sunday December 08, 2019 @02:34AM
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一 yi (tone varies based on phonological context) is the ordinary word for 1.
幺 yāo is a common word for 1 when vocalizing a stream of digits. (Such as a phone number / credit card number / account number / etc.) I am told that this originated as a way to easily distinguish 1 from 7 (七 qī) when communicating over a low-quality connection. In the presence of static, yi and qi could sound similar.
幺 yāo is a common word for 1 when vocalizing a stream of digits. (Such as a phone number / credit card number / account number / etc.) I am told that this originated as a way to easily distinguish 1 from 7 (七 qī) when communicating over a low-quality connection. In the presence of static, yi and qi could sound similar.
CC-CEDICT has a good gloss ( https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=... ):
> one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military)