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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

4 is avoided in Chinese and Japanese. Although contextually its not too far off the mark in this case.

in JP, 4 sounds like 'shi', meaning death. 43 sounds like the word for 'stillbirth'. ('shi' also means particle, or also emoticon) In China, 4 = 'death', 14 = 'must die', 24 = 'easy to die'

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