Chinese hospitals only have 4 floors ' was a fact of the day at school. Why can't they have any more floors??!
Your fact of the day at school was wrong. Many hospitals have more than four floors. The hospital my husband was in last year (in northwest China) has 14 floors.
Not a FACT AT ALL!!!!!!!!!! I was just in a Hospital in China.. I was on the 11th floor... Maybe you are thinking they do not have a 4th floor. Since the number 4 is bad luck. You better think twice about that school you are going to. YIKES!!
Lots of buildings in China do not have a 4th floor. The character si sounds like the character for death. It is like the 13th floor in America. Also where I was living a lot of buildings were only 5 floors tall because apparently if they are under 6 floors they do not need to have an elevator.
They don't only go up to only 4 floors. Maybe you're referring to how some(I'm not sure if all) hospitals in China don't have a forth floor. So the floors would be numbered: 1,2,3,5,6, etc. This is because the Chinese word for four四(sì) sounds similar to the word for death: 死(sǐ). So to a Chinese person, a family member or friend as a patient on the fourth floor would be like a patient on the death floor(it's considered unlucky)
