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1F 171. The above forms, which are really cardinals, serve likewise for such expressions as "two days," "twelve days," " twenty days," etc. But tsuitachi cannot be used in the sense of "one day," because it is derived from tsiiki taclii, " the moon rising," i.e. " the first day of the moon." "One day" is therefore always ichi-nichi. Neither can misoka be used in the sense of "thirty days " or " thirty-one days," notwithstanding the fact that "thirty (miso) days (ko)" is found to be its etymolo- gical meaning, if we dig down into Archaic Japanese. 1f 172. Hours are counted by prefixing the Chinese numer- als to the Chinese word ji t " time," " hour; " thus :
ichi-ji, one o'clock.
ni-ji, two o'clock.
san-ji j ip-pun, ten minutes past three.
yo-ji ju-go-fuiij a quarter (lit. fifteen minutes)
past four.
jil-ichi-ji han, half-past eleven.
jO-ichi-jlshi-jil-go-fun,} twelve _
ju-m-ji ju-go-fun mae, }
han-ji-kaii, half-an-hour. (#=" interval.")
jil-go-fun, a quarter of an hour.
H 173. " Half," as just instanced, is han, or, when used substantively, ham-bun (lit. "half part"). Other fraction- al and multiplicative numbers are expressed as in the following examples, by means of the words bit, "part," (a corruption of bun, " part ") and bai, " double : "
sam-bu no ni, two-thirds.
shi-bu nO icJii, a quarter.
jil-bn no san, three tenths.
bai or ni-bai, double, twice as much.
sam-bai, treble, three times as much.
