In China, it’s 8 due to the number sounding like the Mandarin word for death
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TheRealKuni@piefed.social 3 weeks agoOnly in Western cultures. In East Asia, it’s 4.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
In my understanding, 4 sounds like the word for death and 8 sounds like the word for wealth, so 8 is considered lucky.
But I don’t speak any version of Chinese, and could very well be wrong.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
And a dotzen more.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Nope, theirs is also the same. Just another same than ours.