Mnemonic goroawase system

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The Goroawase system is the Japanese equivalent of the major system. Every digit gets a set of possible phonetic values. Such substitutions are well known as both mnemonics (as in the example below), as well as the selection of memorable phone numbers for commercial services.

0 - rei, re, o
1 - ichi, i, hitotsu, hito, hi, wan
2 - ni, futatsu, fu, futa, tsuu
3 - san, sa, mitsu, mi
4 - yon, yo, shi, yotsu, foa
5 - go, itsutsu, itsu
6 - roku, ro, mutsu, mu
7 - shichi, nana, nanatsu, na
8 - hachi, ha, yatsu, ya
9 - kyu, ku, kokonotsu, ko

Example

1492 (the year of discovery of America) can be translated like this:

iyo! kuni ga mieta!

translating to English:

Wow! I found a country!

510923

go tooku tsuu mi

corresponding to

Go talk to me

Links

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