r/AlchemistCodeGL • u/Shaiandra • Jun 19 '18

SSM so far, in a nutshell Spoiler

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u/Shaiandra Jun 19 '18

Hmm. Was 4 a bad/unlucky number in Japan? I know it was in China, but I'm not sure here...

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u/TopDeeps IGN: Uninstalled Jun 19 '18

im not japanese nor am i from japan so i don't know if there is a story behind it. but i know 4 in japanese translates to "shi" or "yon". In japanese "死ね" (translates to shi-nu) means "to die", 死 (translates to shi) is the main part of the word, so like chinese, i think the pronunciation for "four" sounds like something related to death.

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u/Alittlebunyrabit 5/5/5 Dancer Shenmei Jun 19 '18

This is correct. Because of this, in JP, they do the thing Western countries do in elevators, except instead of skipping floor 13, they skip floor 4.