![]() A telephone number with all digits being eights was sold for ¥2.33 million (about AU$450,000) to Sichuan Airlines in Chengdu, China.How much did he want for his lucky 8 plate? A cool ¥1.12 million (roughly AU$219,000). A Hangzhou man placed his license plate for sale which read A88888.So just how much do the Chinese love the lucky number 8? Well we’ve got some crazy examples: Note as well, this particular symbol matches the mathematical symbol of infinity. The word is also phonetically similar to the word for a hundred (pronounced “baak”), which they believe for greater wealth. In regional dialects the words for “eight” and “fortune” are also similar. ![]() The Cantonese word for eight, which is pronounced “ba”, sounds similar to the word which means “prosper” or “wealth”. The number 8 is considered the luckiest of numbers in China and they believe the more 8’s the better.
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