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.
