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    Tetraphobia (from Ancient Greek τετράς (tetrás) 'four', and Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) 'fear') is the practice of avoiding instances of the digit 4...
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    which had similar hardware and keypad layout, as well as Nokia observing tetraphobia in Asian markets where the number four is viewed as unlucky. The Nokia...
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  • needed] Certain numbers: The number 4. Fear of the number 4 is known as tetraphobia; in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, the number sounds like the...
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  • for people to perform well in professional and educational settings.  Tetraphobia – fear of 4 (four) Triskaidekaphobia – fear of 13 (thirteen) Heptadecaphobia...
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    workers. The top floor is numbered 118. The number "4" is skipped due to tetraphobia, as it sounds like the word "death" when spoken in Cantonese and is therefore...
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    of Turner Construction. There is no 44th floor in the building due to Tetraphobia), so the 43rd floor connects directly to the 45th floor; the 57th floor...
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  • 'stillborn' and the number #43). See also Kotodama (below), Imikotoba (below), Tetraphobia, Japanese superstitions and Onomatopoeia. Ancient Egyptian conception...
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    General 1 (Ace of spades) 3 (Three on a match) 4 (Four-leaf clover, tetraphobia) 7 (Seventh son of a seventh son) 11:11 13 (Friday the 13th, The Thirteen...
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  • symbolic of bad luck in many Asian cultures, a phenomenon that is known as tetraphobia). Tsuyoshi answers the phone only to hear rasping, cat-like sounds issue...
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    the word "death" (死, pinyin sǐ). To avoid complaints from people with tetraphobia, many numbered product lines skip the "four": e.g. Nokia cell phones...
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    third would be numbered as the fifth, and so on. This is because of tetraphobia: in many varieties of Chinese, the pronunciation of the word for "four"...
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  • TeamSpeak 5 (with the name TeamSpeak 4 rumoured to have been avoided due to Tetraphobia), their new client has been released without a version number, and is...
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  • Teratophobia fear of giving birth to a monster or a disfigured foetus Tetraphobia fear of the number 4 Thalassophobia fear of the sea, or fear of being...
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  • reading of the word death (死), which makes it an unlucky reading (see tetraphobia); while shichi may sound too similar to ichi (1), shi or hachi (8). However...
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    General 1 (Ace of spades) 3 (Three on a match) 4 (Four-leaf clover, tetraphobia) 7 (Seventh son of a seventh son) 11:11 13 (Friday the 13th, The Thirteen...
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  • digit number that adds up to 4, because it is considered bad luck; see tetraphobia.) Number of closed fabs currently listed here: 45 List of Intel manufacturing...
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  • skipped the number 4 as they traditionally always do (due to East Asian tetraphobia). S60 5th Edition runs on Symbian OS version 9.4. The major feature of...
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  • the Chinese market, where the number 4 is associated with "death" (see tetraphobia). This did not stop Maximo Series 5 version 4.0 from being released....
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    Roosevelt Sholom Aleichem Stephen King Nick Yarris Ángel Nieto Number 4 (Tetraphobia). In China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam,...
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  • SaskTel who made the decision to eschew 474, citing a sensitivity to tetraphobia in the community, and that the choice of 639 as a replacement was based...
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  • General 1 (Ace of spades) 3 (Three on a match) 4 (Four-leaf clover, tetraphobia) 7 (Seventh son of a seventh son) 11:11 13 (Friday the 13th, The Thirteen...
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    Series 3. A Psion Series 4 does not exist, due to Psion's concern of tetraphobia in their Asian markets.[citation needed] The external appearance of the...
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    General 1 (Ace of spades) 3 (Three on a match) 4 (Four-leaf clover, tetraphobia) 7 (Seventh son of a seventh son) 11:11 13 (Friday the 13th, The Thirteen...
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    General 1 (Ace of spades) 3 (Three on a match) 4 (Four-leaf clover, tetraphobia) 7 (Seventh son of a seventh son) 11:11 13 (Friday the 13th, The Thirteen...
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  • a concept car first exhibited in 1997 Tetra-, a numeral prefix for 4 Tetraphobia, the practice of avoiding instances of the digit 4 Tetraplegia, shortened...
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  • numbered No.1 through No.7, with no No.4 as a result of Mista's crippling tetraphobia. Each of the pistols which make up Mista's stand have their own individual...
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    General 1 (Ace of spades) 3 (Three on a match) 4 (Four-leaf clover, tetraphobia) 7 (Seventh son of a seventh son) 11:11 13 (Friday the 13th, The Thirteen...
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    Church Fathers § Irenaeus Prophecy of Seventy Weeks The Queen's Beasts Tetraphobia Therion (Thelema) Whore of Babylon V sign Berthold-Bond (1989) notes...
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  • General 1 (Ace of spades) 3 (Three on a match) 4 (Four-leaf clover, tetraphobia) 7 (Seventh son of a seventh son) 11:11 13 (Friday the 13th, The Thirteen...
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  • organization and also of myself." Afghanistan portal Triskaidekaphobia Tetraphobia Nissenbaum, Dion (2011-06-15). "A Symbol of Paid Companionship, No. 39...
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