A question for Chinese speakers

[northern_mantis]

Hi all

I have a random language question and would be grateful for any assistance. I understand that the spoken word for the number four in mandarin and Cantonese is similar to death and therefore makes that number culturally inauspicious. My question is are there any examples where that had been flipped to be used positively? The best comparison I can think of is in death metal music in English language where the word is used to illustrate the darkness of the subject but is in no way inauspicious. Is anybody aware of any Chinese equivalent? Possibly there may be a generational divide on this.

Many thanks in advance for any feedback you can offer.

[Bao]

Can’t find something directly similar to what you asked for. But in mandarin/putonghua the number 5, “Wu”, sounds like “not”, so 54 is sometimes considered a lucky number. Many Chinese are a bit superstitious when it comes to these things so they prefer not to make connections or connotations to death. I don’t think that it’s likely they would use it in the way you mean.

[edededed]

In most cultures I would guess that death is usually bad. Death metal is probably a weird exception (and I would say that most English speakers think negatively of it anyway )