In the beginning, various Hindus wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase J
vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to
make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed
some tendencies to making the character more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs
developed the character from a 6-look-alike into an uppercase
V-look-alike. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a
two-stroke character consisting of a horizontal upper line joined at its
right to a line going down to the bottom left corner, a line that is
slightly curved in some font variants. As is the case with the European
glyph, the Cham and Khmer glyph for 7 also evolved to look like their
glyph for 1, though in a different way, so they were also concerned with
making their 7 more different. For the Khmer this often involved adding
a horizontal line above the glyph.
This is analogous to the horizontal stroke through the middle that is
sometimes used in handwriting in the Western world but which is almost
never used in computer fonts. This horizontal stroke is, however,
important to distinguish the glyph for seven from the glyph for one in writings that use a long upstroke in the glyph for 1.
Most people in Continental Europe and increasingly in the UK and Ireland as well as Latin America write 7 with a line in the middle ("7"), sometimes with the top line crooked. The line through the middle is useful to clearly differentiate the character from the number one,
as these can appear similar when written in certain styles of
handwriting. This glyph is used in official handwriting rules for
primary school in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, other Slavic countries, as well as in France, Finland, Romania, Germany and Hungary. Read more...
Coloring Pages About the Number "7"
Coloring Pages About the Number "7"
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