00:00Why is there no fourth floor in Japan?
00:02Here, after the third floor, it goes straight to the fifth floor,
00:05and if you visit any hotel, hospital, or mall in Japan, you won't see the number 4 anywhere.
00:09In fact, you won't even find the number 4 in Japanese people's mobile numbers,
00:13and numbers like 14, 24, and 42 are also avoided.
00:16But why is that?
00:17That's because friends, in the Japanese language, the word for 4 also means death.
00:21To explain it simply, in the Japanese language, if you say death,
00:24it sounds almost exactly like the word for 4.
00:27Because of this, if someone is sick in Japan, it's strictly forbidden to say 4 in front of them, since 4 means death.
00:33That's why you won't see the number 4 being used anywhere in Japan.
00:36So what do people use instead of the number 4?
00:38To solve this problem, people here use the previous number along with an A.
00:42For example, instead of 1, 2, 3, and 4, they say 1, 2, 3, then 3A, then 5, 6, 7.
00:48Similarly, after 13, they say 13A, then 15.
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