In the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, what number is bad luck because it sounds like the word for "death"?

In these Asian languages, the word for "four" sounds very similar to the word for "death", leading to the common bad luck superstition around the number. Such fear of four is known by the term tetraphobia, and many businesses in Asia skip the 4th floor of buildings because of it.

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