Nowadays, modern Chinese like to write that way, but in ancient literature, you can also find the Year was written classically, as Salim did.
Like The 9-11Terrorist Attack
We speak like this, 九-一一恐怖（主义）袭击
sounds like: Jiu3 yao1 yao1 kong3 bu4 (zhu3 yi4) Xi1 Ji1
here the 一(1)is not pronounced yi1 but yao1, because it is oral Chinese.
Last edited by pluiepoco; 07-15-2005 at 09:29 AM.
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