Lucky numbers

There're four 8's in my phone nr, another one in the country code and yet another one in the area (city) code, that's six 8's. Should I start a business with some Chinese company?

Are you asking if the Chinese have a term to describe their attitude to the numbers 4 and 8? Or are you asking if there's a term to describe the superstitions associated with numbers in cultures or languages other than one's own?

I was wondering if other languages have numbers that associate luck or fortune and if yes, if there is a term for that in those languages (not the superstition associated with numbers).

tonieja - your phone number is worth a fortune if you sell it to a superstitious Chinese!

"4" in Mandarin and some other local Chinese dialects sounds like how you might pronounce death.
"8" sound like prosper and growth so 8888 is 4x lucky.

Also in Vietnamese
>...luck in Viet Nam is also associated with the ancient Vietnamese language, Sino Vietnamese, which originated in China. According to this, the number four (tu) sounds like the word for death (tu). Similarly, the number six (luc) sounds like loc tien, which means a windfall of money. Eight (bat) sounds similar to the word phat trien, which means develop. Thus the combination 68 is especially lucky because it means prosperity.

I was in Vietnam on some day considered especially auspicious for weddings, due to the combination of numbers in the date (I forget what it was). Everywhere we went, we saw wedding parties.

Edited to add: Lucky and unlucky numbers around the world. I can't vouch for the scholarship.

Edited by: Charles Lindbergh

Interesting. I was not aware that to Chinese 9 is a lucky number as well while 7 is another unlucky one.

Seven is the number of prescribed courses t a Cantonese funeral banquet, so another association with death.

in Georgia parents generally don t celebrate their kids birth day when they turn one years old and adults generally don t do it when they turn 40.on the other hand 33 is considered as lucky numer to celebrate it

The number4 thing occurs in several Asian languages including Japanese, number 9 is good for longevity apparently. My Hong Kong ID card has a couple of 8s and a 9, enough to get any Hongkonger salivating ! A Chinese friend here in UK has changed his telephone number to only 8s - very lucky !