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Chinese Lucky Number
There is a Chinese saying “good things come in pairs”. You see the character 喜 (pinyin = xĭ) twice. 喜 can mean “happiness”, so two 喜 can therefore mean double happiness.
Numbers(1~10)_ Star Talk 【 Daisy Su 2009】 P. 2
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Lucky Chinese Number
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This number has similar pronunciation to flowing /smooth ( 流 = liú) and slippery ( 溜= liū) . It indicates that everything will go smoothly.
Chinese Lucky Number
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The Summer Olympics in Beijing was scheduled to open on 8/8/08 at 8:08:08 pm
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This number sounds like prosper or wealth( 發 = fā). 發 is short for 發財 = fā cái = get rich. ( 恭喜發財 = gōngxĭ fācái = congratulations and get rich. This phrase is said at Chinese New Year and can mean “happy new year”or “congratulations and best wishes for a prosperous new year” ).
Chinese Lucky Number
This number sounds exactly like 久 (jiǔ)-which means “a long time” or “long lasting” . There are supposedly 9,999 rooms in the Forbidden City, in China.
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The number of knobs in the picture is 9 , both vertically and horizontally.
Where is the number nine used in this
picture?
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Chinese Lucky Number
It means “road of prosperity” or to “be prosperous together”. ( 一路發 yí lù fā) For Chinese, it is considered one of the luckiest numbers. It is found in many business names, such as the one up:
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Chinese Lucky Number