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Literally: Fall seven times and stand up eight; Meaning: When life knocks you down, stand back up; What matters is not the bad that happened, but what one does after. 猿も木から落ちる Saru mo ki kara ochiru; Literally: Even monkeys fall from trees; Meaning: Anyone can make a mistake. 花より団子 Hana yori dango
The book is a collection of short chapters arranged in eight sections in which Higashida explores identity, family relationships, education, society, and his personal growth. [29] [30] The title comes from a Japanese proverb, 七転び八起き, which literally translates as "Fall seven times and stand up eight".
[7] The number 43. In Japanese culture, maternity wards numbered 43 are considered taboo, as the word for the number means "stillbirth". [8] The number 666. Fear of the number 666 is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. Per Biblical prophecy, the "Number of The Beast", signifies the return of the Devil and Antichrist.
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Symbol Culture Notes 7: Western, Japanese [3] [4] 8: Chinese, Japanese Sounds like the Chinese word for "fortune". See Numbers in Chinese culture#Eight. Used to mean the sacred and infinite in Japanese. A prime example is using the number 8 to refer to Countless/Infinite Gods (八百万の神, Yaoyorozu no Kami) (lit. Eight Million Gods).
Human rights groups have called for investigation after a shocking video emerged in which a maid falls seven stories from an apartment complex in Kuwait, as her employer films the entire incident.
Graffiti with a Nazi swastika and 14/88 on a wall in Elektrostal, Moscow, Russia Graffiti with 1488 and an obscure message on a wall in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Russia "The Fourteen Words" (also abbreviated 14 or 1488) is a reference to two slogans originated by the American domestic terrorist David Eden Lane, [1] [2] one of nine founding members of the defunct white supremacist terrorist ...
Examples include the seven days of creation and so seven days that make up a week, and the seven lamps on the Temple Menorah. One variation on the use of seven is the use of the number six in numerology, used as a final hallmark in a series leading to a seven (e.g. mankind is created on the sixth day in Genesis, out of the seven days of creation).