Is it true that many in Japan and Korea are afraid of the number 4?

I always thought it was a China-only thing.

Isn't it the reason Japanese prefer saying よん instead of し for 4, as し sounds like the word meaning death?

also they call the fourth floor "3+1 floor"

Yeah, that's pretty much the main reason. し sounds just like 死, the kanji for death.

in south korea we dont have the "4f" button in lift

4 is my favourite number

homophone with death

although different tones

I don't think anyone give a shit about the 4-taboo anymore

Vietnam, Korea and Japan all imported the chinese pronunciation for 4 and death, so yeah.

perhaps because Hongkongers call it "four" like the cucks you are

How can a relatively civilized population be scared of a number in 2016??

>friday the 13th

Wot,¿

How can a relatively civilized population eat mämmi in 2016?
What is culture?

He's saying Hong Kongers are cucks because they're a former British colony.

Hospital or car number that is shouldnt be associated with death often avoid using as room number,for example skip "404" ,403 to 405.
I guess its just a convention,We like to say the words that at least have 2 syllable,There are too many word pronounce "しsi" you know,for purpose of avoiding mix up with ohter si

Nope. We call it bốn, nothing related to death, it's just a number.

He is absolute right

But that's just an irl meme, nobody takes it seriously at all

Pretty sure that you can also say tứ.

They can also say quatre which isn't scary because it sounds like what they have for lunch.

only old persons

Both tứ and tử are Sino-Viet words, and mostly used in literature. In real life, to say death or die, we use chết.

what happens when someone turns 104 then

Seppuku

>XVII

I suppose it takes one to know one.

first colony to fight for independence
not so bad

This happens in Korea too? But isn't 4 넷 / 사 ?

This triggers the Korean. :^)

Yes obviously we never put '4444' on licence plate

Why would you import the same pronunciation for a common number and death?

yon
shhi
4

She isn't sleeping though.

When I was in China, the 4th floor in my hotel was the 5th floor, and there were one or two other floors that were 'missing'

Yeah, that's right.
We are afraid of 4( idk about Korean.).
Because in Japanese language one of the pronunciation of 4 and death is same pronunciation.
So, it is bad.
For example almost hospital, inn and hotel has not 4F . Because 4 is bad.

What about Sup Forums? Are Japanese afraid to come here?

13 》 1 and 3 》 1 + 3 》 4
:-D

>the current year
>being afraid of numbers

lmao. then again, this comes from people who also think that blood type matters when it comes to finding a gf.

Because languages that imported Chinese characters also imported the readings along with them. As a result, characters that are pronounced the same in Chinese will also be homophones in their adopted versions.

No, Sup Forums's pronunciation is "Yon chan" that isn't "Shi chan" .
So, here is ok.

>we don't use it
>well we use it in writing and among some of our people

Number 4 is the best in the batting line-up.

Same way we're using 12 bis instead of 13.

in hospital, there's 4th floor

Just because it's called 5 doesn't mean it's not the fourth.

I keep foreign cash in the empty pockets in my wallet for feng shui reasons.