These are the elevator buttons in our apartment building. There are no 4's on any floor. It is an unlucky number here because the Chinese word for "4" sounds almost identical to the Chinese word for "death". In a related story, cell phone companies in China allow you to chose your cell phone number from a list of choices, each of which are priced according to the amount of lucky and unlucky numbers they contain. I went for the cheapest option. My number is 134 4444 4444.
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