No 13th Floor In China

Rather than lying to people by calling the 13th floor the 14th floor they actually designed the building to have a 13th floor that is a mechanical storage floor where people do not go.

No 13th floor in china. This is because the pronunciation of four 四 sì sounds similar to the chinese word for death 死 sǐ. With craig bierko gretchen mol armin mueller stahl vincent d onofrio. I thought that was interesting in staying true to not having guests stay on a wrongly numbered floor 13th floor labeled as 14 still makes it the 13th floor. In indonesia since the 2000s an increasing number of skyscrapers skip floors ending with or contains implicit references to the number 4 as well as the 13th floor especially in those funded by chinese indonesians.

These buildings of course have a physical floor that is the 13th from the ground but that floor is either reserved as a mechanical zone or storage space or just renamed to be the 14th floor. A resort i worked at made the 13th floor for employees only with house keeping on that floor. Examples of unlucky floor numbers that usually omitted in elevators all numbers ending with four 4 in chinese culture fourth floor is usually omitted from most elevator fixtures in a chinese building this is because the number means death 死 it was considered that the number 4 in putunghua means sì while death is sǐ and cantonese means sei3 while death is sei2. Omitting the 13th floor may take a variety of forms.

No 4th 13th or 14th floor. For example in plaza semanggi owned by lippo group 4th floor is replaced by 3a. But the number 9 in china is very auspicious it sounds the same as the word for longevity. The most common include denoting what would otherwise be considered the thirteenth floor as level 14 giving the thirteenth floor an alternate designation such as 12a or m the.

In the same manner you ll find missing 4th floors in china and other parts of east asia and sometimes a building will have no floors at all with. However your tale is a humorous one as it suggests an architect with a conscience. The thirteenth floor is a designation of a level of a multi level building that is often omitted in countries where the number 13 is considered unlucky. In many buildings in china the lack of floors ending in 4 is very common though i don t understand why most buildings without a 14th 24th etc.

Thanks for your comment. In china the number four is extremely unlucky 不幸的 bú xìng de. No i have not been to the plummer building. However some places of south china especially guangdong and hong kong there are some buildings that avoid the 4th floor even 14th and 24th etc.

No that s not true. Directed by josef rusnak. So you needed a key to make the elevator stop on 13. I have been in different places of china.