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13

See also: 13. and ⑬

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13 (previous 12, next 14)

  1. The cardinal number thirteen.
    • 1944 November and December, “Notes and News: Bufferstop Collisions in Northern Ireland”, in Railway Magazine (in English), page 370:
      A remarkable feature of the accident was that the engine was 4-4-2 tank No. 13, the guard's brake was No. 13, and there were 13 wagons in the train.
    • 2019 December 13, Marika Gerken, “Friday the 13th: How it came to be and why it’s considered unlucky”, in CNN‎[1] (in English):
      The great Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg had such a severe case of triskaidekaphobia (the fear of the number 13), he omitted numbering the 13th measure in some of his later works, substituting it with the notation “12a.”
    • 2021 August 12, Christobel Hastings, “Why is Friday the 13th unlucky? The cultural origins of an enduring superstition”, in CNN‎[2] (in English):
      There’s even a name to describe the irrational dread of the date: paraskevidekatriaphobia — a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a fear of the number 13.

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Etymology

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Decomposition of the alphabet B, which is homophonous to 屄 (bī).

Noun

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13

  1. (Mandarin, chiefly Internet slang) Alternative form of 屄 (bī)
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