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We are surrounded by numbers. They are literally everywhere, after all. Your apartment number, your cell phone number, your license plate—all are avenues to invite good luck or protect against bad ...

A Chinese developer recently picked up an office building in the heart of Sydney for an eye-catching figure: $88,888,888 (AUD). For real estate experts who routinely work with Chinese buyers, the ...

If, for whatever reason, you’ve ever spent much time on Chinese websites, you’ll know that they often use numbers over letters or other characters. So, 4399.com is a gaming site, 92.com deals with car ...

Rosie Baldwin's favorite number is four. She was born in the fourth month of the year, and is also the fourth child of her family. But when Baldwin, a housewife from Ohio in the United States, arrived ...

Chinese characters don't readily work with the English-centric Internet. The New Republic's Chris Beam tells NPR's Scott Simon that the Chinese use numbers that when pronounced, sound like words. This ...