tally

Marks made to keep count of something. Often, markings written on the body with a sexual connotation.

Western style tally marks use four vertical lines with a fifth diagonal line drawn through them to mark five. In East Asia (including Japan), the character 正 is used to keep a tally. Each stroke in the character counts as one tally, with a total of five.

For the non-sexual use of tally marks to count kills by a weapon or vehicle, use kill markings instead.

Examples

Western tally marks

Japanese tally marks

See also

• body writing
• pregnancy mark

The following tags are aliased to this tag: tallies and tally_marks (learn more).