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Chinese Number Unit Omission Tool

Check an explicitly required unit token without parsing or guessing a Chinese numeric value.

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Description

Check a supplied Chinese-number unit token.

Language and manuscript records use explicit source labels, scripts, era-year conventions and text/area units. A literal split, Unicode slot or page-area calculation preserves supplied notation without resolving pronunciation, historical dates, manuscript identity or conservation needs.

Check a supplied Chinese-number unit token.

When to use this tool

Use Chinese Number Unit Omission when checking the stated language, manuscript, era-label or Unicode convention.

How to use the tool and how it works

  1. Enter token, requiredUnit, permittedOmission. Use the units and conventions below.
  2. Run the tool. Correct any format, range, or cross-field input error before interpreting the output.
  3. Read unitPresent, ambiguous. Inspect unitPresent, ambiguous before interpreting the associated values.

Check a supplied Chinese-number unit token. Require nonempty requiredUnit; unitPresent tests literal substring membership, ambiguous means absent and omission not permitted.1

Input fieldMeaning and unitsAccepted input
tokenTokenRequired. Text; maximum UTF-16 length 8192.
requiredUnitRequired UnitRequired. Text; maximum UTF-16 length 8192.
permittedOmissionPermitted OmissionRequired. Boolean.
Output fieldInterpretationReturned shape
unitPresentUnit PresentRequired. Boolean.
ambiguousAmbiguousRequired. Boolean.
json
{
  "input": {
    "token": "三百",
    "requiredUnit": "百",
    "permittedOmission": false
  },
  "output": {
    "unitPresent": true,
    "ambiguous": false
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

  • The omission rule is supplied; no Chinese numeral parsing, contextual disambiguation or numerical value is computed.
  • Inputs must satisfy both the field types and the cross-field conditions above. Invalid input causes an error; a successful false flag or documented placeholder is a different result.

Alternative or Complementary methods

Inspect the original text/manuscript and its documented language, edition, calendar and encoding conventions for substantive linguistic, historical or conservation interpretation.

References

  1. Calculation and input contract: asian-studies/chinese-number-unit-omission — tool.io

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