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Originally Posted by seadzz
Chinese buildings never have a 4th floor for a similar reason and you could not give away a home or cell phone number with four's in it. They save those numbers for foreigners. The number 4 in chinese soundsl like the word for death.
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In which Chinese dialect? Are you maybe getting mixed up with Japanese, where both the word for four and the word for death is "shi"? That said, I've been to Japan and never known any instance of 4th floor nor phone number superstition.
