In a typical building in mainland China, floors 4, 13 and 14, 24, 34 are often missing because there is similarity phonetically between the word 'four' and 'death' in Chinese.
They will even be more confused if brought to Hong Kong, as some luxurious residential apartments such as The Arch skipped all the floors from 40th to 49th, so immediately above 39th comes 50th. Conceivably good news for the acrophobic but I am just saying, the 14th floor STILL is the 13th floor realistically speaking so.
Is the omission even necessary??
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