I'm the kind of person that notices license plate numbers, especially vanity plates. If you're like me, you may notice some strange plates floating about, like one I spotted this morning which read "ANDY968". Now, there's a couple of ways to read this plate -- 968 could mean that Andy was born in September of 1968, but more likely use of the number combination of 968 is as a Chinese Lucky Number. The number 9 implies everlasting, the number 6 means 'easy' or 'smoothly', while the number 8 is taken to mean 'fortune'. So basically, Andy wants everlasting easy money. Not a bad wish.
Because the Chinese language has a lot of homonyms, a number can mean several things because they may sound alike to more than one word. Numbers can be combined into phrases, with each number having a different meaning, such as 1666 -- "has easy smooth road".
1 - "will", "has/have"
2 - "guaranteed"
3 - "prosperity" or "life"
4 - a homonym for death. Not Lucky.
5 - can mean 'I' or 'me'. When used in front of another number, it can also mean 'no' or 'not'.
6 - means 'easy' or 'smoothly' or 'road'
7 - "gone"
8 - "fortune" or "money"
9 - "everlasting", "long"
13 - "must be alive"
14 - can mean "I will die" (when read as 1-4) or "accident" (when read as 14). Unlucky
Some number combinations are unlucky due to the way they combine. For example, the number 626 you would think means "easy guaranteed easy", but 6+2+6 = 14 = accident or guaranteed death.
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