Missing floor

Further to my blog entry Bungee jumping from tall buildings, the Chinese  don’t like the number “four” as it sounds like “to die/death”.  So places like hospitals, in particular, might have the fourth floor missing altogether.  I recently saw a Taiwanese film made in the 70s, and there is a scene where some people were visiting someone at a hospital.  There is a shot of the floor numbers inside the lift which clearly shows: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6.

PS:  In Japanese, one does not say “shi nin” for “four people” as it sounds like “dead people”.  One says “yo nin” instead.