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Alt text: They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.

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[-] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago

In my understanding, 4 sounds like the word for death and 8 sounds like the word for wealth, so 8 is considered lucky.

But I don’t speak any version of Chinese, and could very well be wrong.

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