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The word for 'eight' is written in Chinese. In Mandarin, it's pronounced 'ba', or in Cantonese, it's pronounced 'baat'. 'Ba' or 'baat' sound like the words for 'wealth', which are 'fa' in Mandarin or 'faat' in Cantonese. Because of this, eight is thought to be lucky. On the lucky day of 08/08/2008: - The Beijing Olympics opened at 8 minutes and 8 seconds past 8. - A record 300,000 couples registered their marriages in China. In China and Hong Kong, people spend big sums of money on car number plates containing multiple 8s. They pay more for phone numbers with an 8 in them. Apartments on the 8th floor of a building are the most popular.
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The word for 'four' is written in Chinese. In Mandarin, it's pronounced 'si' or in Cantonese, it's pronounced 'sei'. Tall buildings often don't have a 4th Floor, a 14th Floor or a 24th Floor because nobody would want to live or work there.
