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> You can easily communicate numbers 1 through 10 to just about anyone around the globe by holding up the corresponding number of fingers

For the numbers 6-10 China have hand gestures where number of fingers held up does not correspond to the number.

I was confused by this when I wanted to buy something and the lady crossed her two index fingers.

I took it to mean that the item was not for sale (out of stock), but later learned that this is the hand gesture for the number ten.




For additional context to others, it's the Chinese character for the number 10 (十)




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