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| A Chinese elevator - no fours |
In Mandarin, the word four, 四 sì, sounds alot like the word death, 死 sǐ. Because of this, it is considered
bad luck to live in an apartment on a floor that has the number 4 in it.
As you
can see in the photo, floors 4, 14, and 24 have been changed to 3A, 13A, and
23A. I live in apartment number 704. When we were looking for apartments,
several of them had 4s in their room numbers or were on the 4th level. That was
probably because Chinese people prefer not to live in those apartments.
It is
also considered unlucky to give away money as a gift in an amount with four in
it. For instance, we could not give our ayi (housekeeper) 400 RMB as a Chinese
New Year gift.
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