Chinese Lucky Number 8
8 is considered the luckiest number in Chinese culture. In Mandarin Chinese, the pronunciation of “eight” is close to that of the phrase meaning “to make fortune”. The number 8 is also uniquely symmetric, and when laid on its side, resembles the Greek symbol for infinity.
Chinese people tend to prefer the number 8 when buying a house, license plate, or telephone number, even if it means paying extra money.
The Chinese government complied with euphoria over the number 8 in the year of the Olympic Games, 2008, the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Beijing began on the eighth of August (08/08/08), at precisely 8 minutes and 8 seconds past 8 PM, local Beijing time!
Chinese Lucky Number 9
9 is considered especially propitious. This is partly due to the fact that the pronunciation of “nine” is close to that of the word “long-lasting” in Chinese. So Chinese couples would be glad to get wedding gifts containing the number 9, like a bouquet of 99 roses, which has an auspicious meaning of “have a long-lasting happy life together”.
In feng shui, 9 is the highest on the number scale and represents the “ultimate masculinity”. It is used to symbolize the supreme sovereignty of the emperor. So 9 or some multiple of 9 was often used in imperial house designs, like the 9,999 rooms in the Forbidden City.
Chinese Lucky Number 6