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Someone said 24-hour time for 0215 can be 零二么五小時 --- Why would 么 be used instead of 幺? Havent these 2 characters been different for nearly 70 years?
么 and 幺 are recognized alternative "spellings" for the same thing in many instances, which is completely unrelated to any simplified or traditional chinese standards-- in this case they ...
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Someone said 24-hour time for 0215 can be 零二么五小時 --- Why would 么 be used instead of 幺? Havent these 2 characters been different for nearly 70 years?
么(同“幺”) - 一的別稱. 如:「么二三……。」. 《康熙字典》【韻會】俗幺字。See https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E4%B9%88
幺 -「么 」的异体字。See https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E5%B9%BA
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