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You’re not wrong, but your choice of examples isn’t great. Four is actually associated with death because it sounds like death, four is unlucky[4]. There is also an alternative pronunciation for “four”, よん。

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia



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