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Chinese unlucky numbers
EternalCynic Started conversation Jul 10, 2002
Being a Chinese (Cantonese) speaker, I'm not sure exactly how "seven" sounds like "death". (Maybe it's the dialect?)
Also, the number 14 sounds the same as "certain death", so it's generally avoided as well.
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