tetraphobia 恐四症

A new apartment building in Sydney has mysteriously left off the numbers four and 14 from the elevator. 

在澳大利亚悉尼的一座新公寓楼内，电梯楼层按钮面板上的两个数字“4”和“14”神秘消失了。

The disappearance of the two floors is apparently because certain numbers are bad luck or have associations with death among Chinese, who are investing billions of dollars in the Australian property market. 

这两个楼层的消失显然是因为在中国人看来，某些数字代表霉运或与死亡有关。中国人在澳大利亚房地产市场已投资数十亿美元。

In Mandarin Chinese, the look and sound of the word for 'four' is very similar for the word 'death' - and that could be bad luck. 

在普通话中，数字“4”和“死”谐音，一些中国人觉得不吉利。

This superstition is referred to as tetraphobia and is common in East Asian and Southeast Asian regions such as China, Japan, Malaysia and Korea. 

这种迷信被称为“恐四症”，在中国、日本、马来西亚和韩国等东亚和东南亚国家和地区非常普遍。