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In Europe and North America, tally marks are most commonly written as groups of five lines. The first four lines are vertical, and every fifth line runs diagonally or horizontally across the previous four vertical lines, in either of the two possible directions (the popular direction may vary from region to region). The resulting mark is known as a five-bar gate, from its similarity to the same. [...]

Chinese, Korean and Japanese tally marks use the five strokes of 正 which is the character meaning "correct" "proper" and "honesty."

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this is the proper time to close the gate. and maybe get a different perspective.