Numbers in Chinese culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Chinese culture, certain numbers are believed by some to be auspicious (吉利) or inauspicious (不利) based on the Chinese word that the number name sounds similar to. However some Chinese people regard...
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13 (number) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
13 is the natural number after 12 and before 14. It is the smallest integer with eight letters in its spelled out name in English. It is also the age at which children officially become teenagers. In...
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A selection of articles related to Unlucky Numbers ... A Wisdom Archive on Unlucky Numbers ... Unlucky Numbers Even numbers, and preeminently the binary, have been regarded by Pythagoras, Gnostics, and others as pertaining to matter; hence even numbers have shared the obloquy so often attached to this side of nature,
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The Japanese don't like the number 4 and 9 because of their pronunciation. Four is pronounced "shi" which is the same pronunciation as death. Nine is pronounced "ku" which has the same pronunciation as agony or torture.
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Chinese believe that 8 is a lucky number and 4 is an unlucky number. This is because the pronunciation for the number 8 is "ba", which sounds like "fa", which means to make a fortune, to acquire wealth, or to become rich.
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A few days later I have now read about seven million subjects yet still don't know all about lucky unlucky numbers. Here is what I have been able to find, please feel free to add any additional lucky/unlucky numbers you know of and why.
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Wednesday, March 08, 2000 ... By Danny Dugan ... Sometimes you get the feeling that the times are too good in America and we need to invent goofy ways to spend our money. One sign of this is the proliferation of those psychic phone lines where a customer calls a stranger who proceeds to tell them all about the caller's life.
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Q. Are there any other unlucky numbers around the world ... Elsewhere, numbers ending in seven in Kenya are considered unlucky, as are all odd numbers in Chad, Nigeria and the Republic of Benin. The number 786 has a special significance for Muslims because it refers to a verse in the Koran which roughly translates as 'God...
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The latest UK and international business, finance, economic and political news, comment and analysis from the Financial Times on FT.com ... All over the region, particularly in manufacturing-heavy south-east and north-east Asia, government statisticians have been summoning up evil-eye numbers of their own...
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Knowing how Christianity and other god-as-a-man-based religions were prone to say that what the pagans (Earth-and-god-as-a-woman) considered good was bad, I wonder if this was the case with the number 13. And why was 13 singled out of an infinity of numbers in the first place?
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