Image japanese skyswcrapers with missing floors.
Which is in keeping with the erstwhile image of the hotel as a landmark.
In japan skyscrapers have to be able to move.
Floor 4 is missing because of the very similar pronunciation of four and death in mandarin chinese.
Similarly new buildings in some parts of china avoid the fourth fourteenth twenty fourth etc.
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.
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This data is thus subject to change until the building has completed and all information can be confirmed and ratified by the ctbuh.
Floors as the word four hanzi.
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Every second floor all the way up to the top you can reduce that motion to a much smaller amount.
This is a list of buildings that once held the title of tallest building in japan.
Floor 13 is missing due to triskaidekaphobia.
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Floor 14 is missing because 4 is included in 14.