Re: How universal is a check mark?

James Turley wrote:
> 
> My kids go to Japanese school here in Silicon
> Valley. Their marked up homework comes home with
> zeros for "correct" and check marks for "incorrect".

Are those check marks similar to Western ones, with the right side
longer than the left side? Or are they more like the letter v, where
both sides have the same length?

I've also seen circle (maru) for correct and X (batsu) for
incorrect/disallowed in Japan.

Erik