Numbers have alway been an integral part of feng shui. The magic square/lao shu on the mythical tortoise’s back containedall the numbers from one to nine.

In Feng shui, numbers are divided into yin and yang. Even numbers are yin and odd numbers are yang. Yang numbers are considered to be more favorable than yin numers but balance is equally important. Hence, it is good to have our house number to contain both yin and yang elements than to be either all yin or all yang.

Chinese always have the following homophonic interpretations for each number:

One sounds like “honor”. Also sounds like “won”

Two sound like “easy”

Three sounds like “growth”

Four sound like “death”

Five sounds like “nothing”

Six sounds like ” wealth”

Seven sounds like “sure”

Eight sounds like ” prosperity”

Nine sounds like ” long life”

Once you understand the above, you will then understand why the Chinese likes number like 2(easy), 6(wealth), 8(prosperity).

However, what is interesting is if your house number is 24 which can be interpreted as “easy death”- well for Chinese belief but from numerology standpoint, 24 is a very good number.

Also don’t forget the number 4 which means death which is frequently avoided by the Chinese wherever possible. If you understand this, you will then sometimes, find number changed from 4 to 4A just to avoid the homophonic interpretation of “death”. How about in Hong Kong, where in 1988,the first year where the Hong Kong’s Transport Department began auctioning license plate number.The number “8″was sold for a whopping figure of $650,000!!! The license plate “2828″ which means “easy money, easy money” sold for more than $63,000.

It has always being a well known fact that in Chinese environments in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, houses no 8 being sold first and no 4 will be the very last.

Some feng shui experts also advocate:

• if you are choosing a new home, it is best to buy one with both yin and yang numbers as part of the street address and
• arranging the numbers on your letter box so that each number is placed slightly higher than the one before is a good idea except when the final digit is a four. [Arranging the numbers in this way tends to put most significance on the final number. If the final number of the house numberis four, arrange the numbers in a straight line to place equal emphasis on each number.]

Also, from the feng shui, there is the following relationship between the number and the direction, color and elements:-

Direction  Number  Color               Element

North          1             Blue,  black    Water

South           9            Red                  Fire

East           3,4           Green              Wood

West          6,7           White               Metal

Center      2,5,8         Yellow              Earth

If we look at the number in relationship to eight trigram:

Direction Number   Color    Trigam   Element

North             1         Black       K’an       Water

Southwest     2         Yellow     K’un       Earth

East                3          Green     Chen      Wood

Southeast      4           Green     Sun        Wood

Center            5           Yellow      -           Earth

Northwest     6            White     Chien     Metal

West               7            White      Tui        Metal

Northeast      8             Yellow    Ken       Earth

South              9              Red        Li          Fire

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