Auction of Registration Numbers
The DSAT will occasionally auction registration numbers which have special combinations considered to be good luck by the Chinese community. For example "8" and "9" are regarded as "wealth" and "long life" since they have similar pronunciations in Cantonese, so numbers with a combination of 8 and 9, such as 8888, 9999, 9988, etc., will normally be reserved for auctions. Numbers with the same four digits are also popular in auctions.
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