According to Wikipedia: Number 4 is considered an unlucky number in Chinese because it is nearly homophonous to the word “death.”
Due to that, many numbered product lines skip the “4”: e.g. Nokia cell phones (there is no series beginning with a 4), Canon PowerShot G’s series (after G3 goes G5), etc.
In East Asia, some buildings do not have a 4th floor. (Compared with the Western practice of some buildings not having a 13th floor because 13 is considered unlucky.)
In Hong Kong, some high-rise residential buildings omit all floor numbers with “4”, e.g. 4, 14, 24, 34 and all 40–49 floors, in addition to not having a 13th floor. As a result, a building whose highest floor is number 50 may actually have only 35 physical floors.
Photos by Meir Dahan for COLlive
about the guy whose riding a bike with his face completely covered!!!
r u guys seriosly counting the number of the pics
Are you guys all bored with your lives?
very good observation!
the licenses plate in china is blue in that picture it was black
only the buses have yellow license plates- evin if their chinese
Why no pictures of the Chabad House, Mikvah, Shul and the other Chabad Moisdos in Beijing?
..in pic 39
rather than just renaming the number four once and for all to be able to use it, they will stay in confusion forever…. good choice!
in number 40 the black car has a 4!
number 6 is right
magically appeared
There is a ‘4’ included in the numberplate of cars seen in both picture 38 and 39.
but its still so cool!! haha number 1 i agree
even the 4th bus is missing!!!
thank u for nice pictures!
Thanks for posting.
Does that mean that there are no 4 or 13 year olds?