<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">That's an interesting point. The Chinese pronunciation is like sure, but also has the pitfall of its close neighbor "si" being similar to death: <span style="color:rgb(187,187,187);font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:14.3px;background-color:rgba(28,28,28,0.8)"><a href="https://youtu.be/pS9QAhSBfhE?t=75">https://youtu.be/pS9QAhSBfhE?t=75</a></span></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Japanese doesn't have the "r" sound, so the closest sound would be "shu," with "su" also being acceptable.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">David </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 11, 2015 3:30 AM, "Jonathan Morton" <<a href="mailto:chromatix99@gmail.com" target="_blank">chromatix99@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
> On 10 Nov, 2015, at 19:45, David Hilton <<a href="mailto:quercus.aeternam@gmail.com" target="_blank">quercus.aeternam@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> It is also similar to a chinese words:<br>
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> Chinese: shì (sure) - City, yes/correct, scholar, to release/set free, to look at, to show, strength/influence/momentum, persimmon…<br>
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In Japanese, “shi” means “death”. This is a very bad thing, to the point where buildings often omit floor 4 (or even any floor with the digit 4), because one word for 4 is also “shi”.<br>
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