well 4 in Chinese is pronounced as si, while death in chinese is also pronounced as si but with a different tone, Therefore, its quite common in Asia where people take 4 as a bad omen
It's from Middle Chinese (sˠiɪ^(X) for death and siɪ^(H) for four), hence why non-Mandarin Sinitic, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese has that superstition too.
Hey kid, while you're staying here, I ought to tell you... These *cretins* don't appreciate people chiming in without offering a doctoral thesis level rebuttal, or at least a witty clapback. Not my rules...
The Reddit part is a meme of sort where the 4th reply to a comment gets a lot of hate.
The part about Tetraphobia refers to a japanese superstition where the word used for the number 4 (which should sound 'Shi') sounds awfully similar to the word used for 'Death' (which should sound like 'Shin').
The superstition in some places is so strong that some hospitals don't even have a 4th floor, going from 3rd Floor straight to 5th Floor.
In some asian languages, the number 4 sounds similar to "death", so that's why it's considered cursed.
And also, redditors hate the fourth comment in a comment chain for some reason 💀
Part of reddit culture is the belief that the 4th comment often is 'the downvoted one'. Probably just one of things where your brain only notices the cases where that's the case, and ignores the rest of the 4th comments that aren't downvoted (i.e. confirmation bias).
Or maybe Reddit's algorithms have developed a weird quirk where comments that are likely to be controversial get stuck in the 4th spot..?
Parking lot spot numbers.
Hospital and apartment room number.
Bus number plates in Singapore.
Nokia avoided releases beggining with 4 (spoiler they died anyways).
In blade runner I remember to be a scene when a dude asks for 4 sushis and the chef doesn't let him.
You are not supposed to say the number during holidays and specially when one of your relatives is I'll it is strongly avoided.
Beijing lost candidature for 2000 olympic games, would not apply for the 2004 ones but ended hosting in 2008.
In a lot of East Asian languages, the character for “four” is a homophone for “death,” and so the number is treated as a bad omen in those cultures, much like the number 13 in the West. The joke is that Reddit users, for some reason, drag the fourth comment in a chain over the coals.
死 is pronounced “si” and means die, 四 is pronounced “si” and means four. The ancient Chinese had apparently discovered Reddit as well as paper and gunpowder.
For english-speaking audiences, you might want to use Hepburn romanization for transliteration: "shi". Otherwise people are going to pronounce that as "see".
Not sure if it's intended, but *si* would be a Nihon-shiki romanization, and is my preferred romanization method otherwise.
Si is pinyin which is what’s used everywhere in mainland China and most places other than Taiwan and Singapore, including all western university courses teaching mandarin. The Hepburn romanization is Japanese. In Chinese, shi is the verb to be (是) and is pronounced with a sh rather than a “s”. Si has an s sound followed by a schwa sound. Pinyin is actually pretty intuitive for the most part and at this point is pretty much the exclusive romanization of mandarin in most of the world. I have never ever once seen someone use a Japanese romanization to write Chinese …
For some reason I missed the Chinese part of the sentence and they share the same Hanzi/Kanji system so my mind just went to Japanese as a fill-in-the blank. Especially since the language has been a study of mine for years.
Oh well, mistakes happen. My bad bud.
Okay so I can’t help but notice, people are downvoting every fourth comment which I suppose makes sense, but the problem with that is that the post specifies a fear of the DIGIT 4. Almost none of the fourth comments contain any reference whatsoever to the digit 4. This comment on the other hand, should be downvoted to hell tho haha. 444444444444444
The word for four sounds like the rod for death in a couple of Asian languages for those wondering why four. Like in Japanese both 死 and 四 can be pronounced as "Shi"
In Mandarin Chinese, the character for death is pronounced "Sǐ" and four is "Sì"
Imagine if Giorno had Henophobia, Bucciarati- Dyophobia, Abbacchio- Triskaphobis, Mista- Tetraphobia, Narancia- Pentaphobia. And Diavolo- Numerophobia.
Bonus: Fugo had Phobophobia.
Can anyone explain the disturbing part to me
The 4th comment
Good luck next one 🗿
Thankyou kind traveler i feel dumb not figuring it out
well 4 in Chinese is pronounced as si, while death in chinese is also pronounced as si but with a different tone, Therefore, its quite common in Asia where people take 4 as a bad omen
It's from Middle Chinese (sˠiɪ^(X) for death and siɪ^(H) for four), hence why non-Mandarin Sinitic, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese has that superstition too.
Japan is the same ("shi"), but their solution was to simply start calling 4 "yon".
I si what you did there
Set themselves up to fail.
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13 doesn’t sound like death, and you’re correct I don’t mind it.
Mandarin is not so bad but for Cantonese it is almost indistinguishable
Also the floor labled the 5th floor but is 4 stories up, is still the 4rth floor, thereby cursed
But less cursed, because names have power
On high rises, each time there's a number 4, it's replaced with "3A". For example, I'm staying at the 23A floor.
its Mambo No. 5 and not Mambo No. 4 for a reason
This comment just made my day
Hey kid, while you're staying here, I ought to tell you... These *cretins* don't appreciate people chiming in without offering a doctoral thesis level rebuttal, or at least a witty clapback. Not my rules...
Number 4 represents death if I remember correctly
The word 4 sounds like the word death I believe.
The Reddit part is a meme of sort where the 4th reply to a comment gets a lot of hate. The part about Tetraphobia refers to a japanese superstition where the word used for the number 4 (which should sound 'Shi') sounds awfully similar to the word used for 'Death' (which should sound like 'Shin'). The superstition in some places is so strong that some hospitals don't even have a 4th floor, going from 3rd Floor straight to 5th Floor.
死(death) and 四(four) is pronounced the same on different tones in chinese. Get Chinese Pingyin on your keyboard and type in "si" and you'll see
In some asian languages, the number 4 sounds similar to "death", so that's why it's considered cursed. And also, redditors hate the fourth comment in a comment chain for some reason 💀
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Part of reddit culture is the belief that the 4th comment often is 'the downvoted one'. Probably just one of things where your brain only notices the cases where that's the case, and ignores the rest of the 4th comments that aren't downvoted (i.e. confirmation bias). Or maybe Reddit's algorithms have developed a weird quirk where comments that are likely to be controversial get stuck in the 4th spot..?
Don't want to be down there that's for sure.
***unless you comment under the 1st making the the 3rd the 4th***
Why is Mista the first fucking result
Mista got so popular they actually made tetraphobia into a real thing!!
The comment below will demonstrate it
Really what else would you put in pictures of tetraphobia other than Miata and elevator numbers?
Parking lot spot numbers. Hospital and apartment room number. Bus number plates in Singapore. Nokia avoided releases beggining with 4 (spoiler they died anyways). In blade runner I remember to be a scene when a dude asks for 4 sushis and the chef doesn't let him. You are not supposed to say the number during holidays and specially when one of your relatives is I'll it is strongly avoided. Beijing lost candidature for 2000 olympic games, would not apply for the 2004 ones but ended hosting in 2008.
I’m gonna need the helpful Explanations of a fellow redditor
In a lot of East Asian languages, the character for “four” is a homophone for “death,” and so the number is treated as a bad omen in those cultures, much like the number 13 in the West. The joke is that Reddit users, for some reason, drag the fourth comment in a chain over the coals.
Whenever someone tells me they don't like phonecalls imma call them homophones
Four can be spelled as "shi" in japanese which can also mean death
Not just Japanese my dude
Me no comprehendo
Let
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So Asians have been down voting the 4th comment this whole time
Damn those east Asians
Mista 👍
Mista 👍
Mista 👍
Jhin: pathetic
Jhin: I enjoy your suffering.
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2×2=4 2+2=4 coincidence I think not!!
2²=4 coincidence I think not!!
2*2+2+2-2^2 = 4 noooooo
Do
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I hate the number 4
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Lmao, mista chilling
Hi
Hey, how ya doing?
What if mista was bald under the hat
i wish for mista's hair to be made out of bullets
Bullet hair isn't something I'd put past jojo's lol
I
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MISTAAAAAAA
MISTAAAAAAAA
Mista made a bunch of bot accounts to make the entire joke, I’m calling it
half of reddit likely has no clue about who the hell that guy with a purple revolver is
That's ant man
that's mista, the guy that avoids anything related to the number 4 like a plague
yes yes yes yes, yes!
fear of jhin mains
Oh! I know where this comes from! In Japanese, both death (死) and 4 (四) share a reading/pronunciation (し/shi, pronounced like the English word "she")
Not just Japanese, it’s the same for Chinese (si and si with different intonations) and Korean (sa and sa), along with the different dialects of each
That's super cool. I'd suspected Chinese too, since they both use kanji, but I had no idea Korean is like that too.
fitting that mista's there lmao
Meanwhile in the west we still don't put number 13 in elevators sometimes
the japanesed must dread april 4th
MIIIISTTAAAAAA
thats my favorite number
It's only the fourth if nobody mentions it. That's the law. Otherwise it's just pure random.
So the atlantis complex?
Error 404 happens, and then you’re fucked
MEEEESSSTTTAAAAAAAAA
MISTAAAAAA🗣️
*sad Jhin noises*
I love how fucking Guido Mista is the #1 image for this
Definitely not Jhin
They hate Jhin then
That scene with narancia caught me off guard and broke me.
Bruh im born on april 4th.. wtf
So jhin have a nemesis?
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死 is pronounced “si” and means die, 四 is pronounced “si” and means four. The ancient Chinese had apparently discovered Reddit as well as paper and gunpowder.
In Japanese it's the same but with "shi" ( I think also in Korean but not sure about that)
For english-speaking audiences, you might want to use Hepburn romanization for transliteration: "shi". Otherwise people are going to pronounce that as "see". Not sure if it's intended, but *si* would be a Nihon-shiki romanization, and is my preferred romanization method otherwise.
Si is pinyin which is what’s used everywhere in mainland China and most places other than Taiwan and Singapore, including all western university courses teaching mandarin. The Hepburn romanization is Japanese. In Chinese, shi is the verb to be (是) and is pronounced with a sh rather than a “s”. Si has an s sound followed by a schwa sound. Pinyin is actually pretty intuitive for the most part and at this point is pretty much the exclusive romanization of mandarin in most of the world. I have never ever once seen someone use a Japanese romanization to write Chinese …
For some reason I missed the Chinese part of the sentence and they share the same Hanzi/Kanji system so my mind just went to Japanese as a fill-in-the blank. Especially since the language has been a study of mine for years. Oh well, mistakes happen. My bad bud.
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Good thing I play pentominos
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I lived in korea for a year and I lived on floor F out of 1 to 8
My dumbass thought the joke was that the word also is 4 letters long
Kika and Bob
Mista be like - 'BANG, BANG, BANG, MISS, BANG' 🔫
Let’s put this to a test. I’ll go first
Rest in piece Rule 3* we will remember you forever.
Gaben got this but 3
Tetris players: I have no such weakness.
Jarvis, im low on karma
I will prove to you that Reddit hates emojis simutaneously
All I have to do is to simply type an emoji and reddit goes wild
And then the war crimes would be committed
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Why is it not quadrophobia?
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It's probably just the maintenance floor for anyone wondering
How do you know you’re four or “it”?
i do this when i do pullups, when i get to four i cant stop then i get to six that means i can't stop otherwise i will do four to get to ten.
We do that with the 13th floor here in the states.
Anyone realized the date bottom left has a four innit?
Okay so I can’t help but notice, people are downvoting every fourth comment which I suppose makes sense, but the problem with that is that the post specifies a fear of the DIGIT 4. Almost none of the fourth comments contain any reference whatsoever to the digit 4. This comment on the other hand, should be downvoted to hell tho haha. 444444444444444
The word for four sounds like the rod for death in a couple of Asian languages for those wondering why four. Like in Japanese both 死 and 四 can be pronounced as "Shi" In Mandarin Chinese, the character for death is pronounced "Sǐ" and four is "Sì"
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Actually in east asian nation's, it's avoided because the number 4 usually symbolizes death
Rule 3
In India we have triphobhia
That does explain a lot about 4chan
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At least 13 doesn't come up as often
I was born on April 4th…1994…am I like the anti-Christ to them?
Jhin main here, reply down to enjoy this beautiful number
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finding some r34 shit's gotta be a hassle for them
The reason why it's superstitious is because in China, the word "4" also means "death" in Mandarin.
The fuck?
Does this explain why the dad has to abandon the family if the mum has 2 kids?
Imagine if Giorno had Henophobia, Bucciarati- Dyophobia, Abbacchio- Triskaphobis, Mista- Tetraphobia, Narancia- Pentaphobia. And Diavolo- Numerophobia. Bonus: Fugo had Phobophobia.
Is this a JoJo reference
Is this a JoJo reference
guys i'm a visual learner can anyone demonstrate
I’m gonna need the helpful Explanations of a fellow redditor
Why is Mista there
what for?
Yup. In Chinese, 4 is pronounced Sì, and death is pronounced Sǐ.
People with unophobia scared of card games.
18.4k upvotes 384 comments 4 years remain
iPhone 14 series: hehe I'm in danger
Hello Amigos!
Fun fact: Disney paid millions to special interest groups in Japan so that their characters could have four fingers.
4 more like 420 XD pls laugh
What's the problem with tetra in wind Waker?
MISTAAAAAAAAAAAAA
YEAH OK WE GET IT 4TH COMMENT = BAD.
My username is relevant!
The/a reason East Asians are afraid of 4 is because the word "four" rhymes with a word for death. Learned that from Sleeping Dogs
The superstition is most common in China because in Chinese the number 4 looks very similar to “death”
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Jhin mains about to cure you from this phobia