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13. ⑬
Translingual
Symbol
mul numeral symbol previous 12 next 14
mul Q37141 mul Arabic numerals thirteen
mul XIII<id:Q37141><qq:Roman numerals> D<id:Q37141><qq:hexadecimal>
en mul 1944 November and December Notes and News: Bufferstop Collisions in Northern Ireland Railway Magazine 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.
en mul Marika Gerken Friday the 13th: How it came to be and why it’s considered unlucky w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/us/friday-the-13th-history-why-trnd 2019-12-13 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.” https://web.archive.org/web/20250522095415/https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/us/friday-the-13th-history-why-trnd 22 May 2025
en mul Christobel Hastings Why is Friday the 13th unlucky? The cultural origins of an enduring superstition w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/12/style/why-friday-13-unlucky-explained 2021-08-12 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260312100210/https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/12/style/why-friday-13-unlucky-explained 12 March 2026
Alternative forms
Derived terms
en 13 percenter
Category:Hindu-Arabic script
mul Thirteen
Chinese
Etymology
Decomposition of the alphabet zh B, which is homophonous to zh 屄.
Noun
zh nouns
zh Mandarin chiefly Internet slang zh 屄
zh terms written in foreign scripts