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They like to use different telephone numbers in different places. The owners of bathhouses, for example, like to use 4626, because when it is read in Japanese, it has the same pronunciation as “have a good bath”. Both the clothes shops and the butchers’ s like to use 4129 better than any other number because this number can either be read as “good dress” or “good meat”.
On the other hand, there are also telephone numbers which are regarded as forbidden by the Japanese people. 1567, for example, has the sound of “kill people”, while the number 4219 has that of “people die”. It is said that some persons had bad luck when they used telephone numbers like that, so all the people don’t use them.
At present, there are about forty-four million telephones in
69. In
In | People → telephone numbers | |||
Lucky telephone numbers → 70. for the shops | ||||
Telephone numbers | Lucky numbers | Different places → different telephone numbers | ||
Places | Numbers | 71. ______ | ||
72. | 4626 | Read as “have a good bath” | ||
The clothes shops and the butcher’s | 73. | Read as “good dress” or “74. ” | ||
75. ______ | Regarded as forbidden → bad luck | |||
Numbers | Meaning | |||
1567 | Sounding like “kill people” | |||
4219 | Sounding like “76. ” | |||
77. ______ | Lucky telephone numbers → commodities sold 78. ______ | |||