Tally marks are marks used to keep track of a value, such as points in a game or occurrences of some event. Every mark represents '1' and they are drawn in groups of 5.

In many Western countries, counting to 5 in tally marks looks like this: 𝍩 𝍪 𝍫 𝍬 卌 (or, the mark for 5 looks like this)
In some Asian countries, counting to 5 in tally marks looks like this: 𝍲 𝍳 𝍴 𝍵 𝍶 (or, the mark for 5 looks like this: 正 )

Tally marks are common in public_use pictures as body_writing or graffiti to (presumably) imply how many times other characters have ejaculated in/on them.

Any use of "tally_marks" should also be tagged with one of these three:

• western_tally_marks — for Western-style marks
• cjk_tally_marks — for Asian-style marks
• (note: japanese_tally_marks, chinese_tally_marks, and korean_tally_marks are all aliased to cjk_tally_marks)
• unusual_tally_marks — for any tally system that differs from the 2 above (including unary_tally_marks which are un-grouped, ...or versions of tally marks with groupings other than groups of 5).

Related tags

• bodypaint
• body_writing
• graffiti
• public_use
• pregnancy_tally

See also

• count