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What are the Japanese characters/words that are helpful to know?

By Yubi23 June 2016

Let's build a good list of them, for the benefit of the tourists and also those who just came to Japan.

Discussion

Yubi #12167

The two large characters mean "half price" (of the marked price). Very useful to know when you are buying food in supermarkets.

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This means "20% discount":

And here is "30% discount":

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