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TenYuen

PostPosted: Fri May 19, 2006 6:19 pm


The Unlucky numbers in Japanese Culture is Ku and Shi. Which is 9 and 4. The reason why its unlucky is because that "Ku" means suffering in japanese, and Shi means death.

Japanese Numbers
0 -Rei
1 -Ichi
2 -Ni
3 -San
4 -Shi [Perferred "Yon"]
5 -Go
6 -Roku
7 -Shichi
8 - Hachi
9 -Ku [Perferred "Kyu"]
10 -Ju
20 -Niju
100 -Hyaku
1,000 -Sen
10,000 -Man
8,000,000 -Happyakuman
PostPosted: Fri May 19, 2006 6:29 pm


The Lucky numbers in Japanese is 8 which is "Hachi". it is lucky because the Kanji Word "Hachi" looks like a mountain. Japanese people consider mountains lucky.

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PostPosted: Sat May 20, 2006 12:01 am


omg..... my favortie number is unlucky in japanese ..... gonk

oh~! lol~ I am glad you said 8 was a lucky number~ because sing a song in the shower that suposed to mean " 7's luck is false " but I kept on saying 8 for some unknown reason o.O like I keep trying to correct my self~ but you know when you just go with the flow for a long time it is hard to break it sweatdrop but I was right any way :O~ that is good~ my mistake wasn't so bad XD sweatdrop
PostPosted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:42 pm


8 is my favourite number~!

And I can now count to 20 in Japanese, thanks to you~! Thank you. =^_^=;

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PostPosted: Sun May 21, 2006 10:01 pm


shi..... shi shi shi shi~........ xp * trips *........... gonk
PostPosted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:52 am


I know in one game(cant remember the title) if you look at the clock at 4:44AM/PM the game will crash

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TenYuen

PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 9:59 am


Eh?
PostPosted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:35 pm


Hey Thanks.. now I can kinda say the numbers.. Im not sure Im saying them right though.. but its okay....

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 4:55 pm


i thought that nana was unlucky, too?
PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:46 pm


Leogorerd
I know in one game(cant remember the title) if you look at the clock at 4:44AM/PM the game will crash



xDD wow
my real name has a 'shi' in it! D=
xDDD

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Oterys

PostPosted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:06 pm


I actually heard from my sister that hachi (eight) is considered unlucky because it's a multiple of shi (four) *shrugs*

-Somewhere there is an adolescent girl screaming about the evils of the number four-
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