<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Numerology and pronunciation.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The number 4 (pronounced like ’say’ in cantonese - the dialect we speak in Hong Kong) sounds similar to ‘death’. It is considered unlucky and generally avoided. While you may not have a 13th floor in western cultures, in China the floor numbers in apartment blocks generally go 1, 2, 3, 5, …, 12, 13, 15, …</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">In contrast, Chinese people love the number 8 (pronounced ‘baat' in cantonese) as it is similar to ‘luck' (pronounced 'faat').</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">I live in house #8 in my housing estate, which is considered good luck. However, as we don’t have a house #4, I guess my place is really the seventh, and house #9 should be considered the lucky one - but we don’t think too much about that. We do have a house #13.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In cantonese, the one I hate is 14 (pronounced 'sup say'), which sounds almost the same as 'water death'. We can never stop after swimming 14 laps in a pool - always have to stop at 13 or go on to 15.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Cantonese and Mandarin dialects of Chinese have different pronunciations, but the numbers 4 and 8 are generally treated unlucky and lucky universally out here.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards, Mark.</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Sep 2019, at 9:38 AM, Greg D. <<a href="mailto:gregd2350@gmail.com" class="">gregd2350@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Always curious about other cultures... What is the superstition, or
would it be a problem to discuss for superstitious reasons?<br class="">
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