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Noun Concept
Categories: Homonymy in Chinese, Chinese language, Superstitions about numbers, Phobias, Cultural aspects of death
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tetraphobia  tetrafobia  fear of #4  fear of 4  fear of four
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Tetraphobia is the practice of avoiding instances of the digit 4. Wikipedia
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Tetraphobia is the practice of avoiding instances of the digit 4. Wikipedia
Avoidance of instances of the number 4, due to homophony of the hanzi 四 and 死 in many East Asian languages Wikidata
Custom of avoiding the number four (4) commonly seen in East Asian countries in which the words for "4" and "death" are paronymous or homophonous. Wiktionary
Fear of the number four. Wiktionary (translation)
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numerophobia
phobia
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tetrafobia
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tetraphobia
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tetraphobia
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tetraphobia
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Fear of 4, Fear of four, Fear of the number 4, Fear of the number four, Four is death, Tetraphobe
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fear of #4, Fear of #4, fear of 4, Fear of 4, fear of four, Fear of four, fear of number 4, Fear of number 4, fear of the number four, Fear of the number four, scared of 4, Scared of 4

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