Hey there, !

Did you know that '228' is a really fun number in Cantonese?

'2' = 'yi' = sounds like 'easy'

'8' = 'baat' ~= 'faat' = fortune

So 228, means EASY FORTUNE!

Cantonese people love to use homophones / homonyms (I don't recall which one is the right one), so I thought it would be fun to decode some of them! (Some are also Mandarin but they love anything that has rhyming so let's go through).

'1314' = 'yut sam yut sei' = for life and for the world...which essentially means 'forever'. Usually used in a romantic context!

'520' (mandarin) = 'wu er ling' ~= 'wo ai ni' = I love you! how cute.

'168' = 'yut luk baat' ~= 'yut lo faat' = continuously gain fortune

'138' = 'yut saam baat' ~= 'yut saang faat' = continuously grow your fortune (the 3 kinda sounds like 'grow' so we love these numbers)

'7788' = is actually just a Cantonese idiom which means you're nearly there but not completed yet (cos you're not at 10). It's kind of like being at 70-80% complete hahaha.

Short one this week - I'm a busy boi on a long weekend :D

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