Your Neighborhood Alien
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This lazy panda didn't forget to write something about itself.
Your Neighborhood Alien · upvoted 40 items
over 1 year ago
Yep! The Cantonese pronunciation of the number "4" is very close to the pronunciation for the word "death", which is why the superstition exists.
The number 4 is bad luck in Chinese culture so the casinos have a computer system where they will automatically not put somebody with a Chinese name (or a name that just might be Chinese, like Lee) in a hotel room with a 4 in the number.