Floor Numbers In Japanese

The japanese word for the tenth floor is 10階 じゅっかい jukkai.
Floor numbers in japanese. Floor 13 is missing due to triskaidekaphobia. How to count to ten in japanese. Examples of unlucky floor numbers that usually omitted in elevators all numbers ending with four 4 in chinese culture fourth floor is usually omitted from most elevator fixtures in a chinese building this is because the number means death 死 it was considered that the number 4 in putunghua means sì while death is sǐ and cantonese means sei3 while death is sei2. Typically one uses the floor number with one or two extra digits appended to identify the room within the floor.
An elevator control panel in a residential apartment building in shanghai with floor numbers 4 13 and 14 missing. For example room 215 could be the 15th room of floor 2 or 5th room of floor 21. The japanese number system has two sets of numbers the sino japanese number set and the native japanese number set. To count more than 10 floors refer to the numbers below.
Floor 4 is missing because of the very similar pronunciation of four and death in mandarin chinese.