Mobile communication has always had an effect on the way users express themselves. Those who had a cell phone before the arrival of smartphones will remember the abbreviations that became common at the time due to extension restrictions in the SMS. If we go back to the pagers or pagers from the 90sthe use of numbers to briefly indicate certain expressions was already common.
With smartphones and applications like WhatsAppthose 160 characters per SMS stopped being a problem, and the messages were filled with emoticons, gifs, stickers and acronyms of common expressions that users use to communicate. However, they are not the only elements that last.
The old habit of finding ways to abbreviate what you want to say never completely went away and, curiously, it has some validity among the youngest, who They use common expressions encoded in numbers. For example, the 7642.
What does it mean when they send you the number 7642 via WhatsApp?
Each of the figures in this number has a meaning: 7 is ‘always’, 6 ‘I will be’, 4 ‘stop’ and 2 ‘you’. It is a simple, and also very vague, way of telling someone that you care and that ‘I will always be there for you’.
The use of these numerical codes is attributed, according to the media La República, to the chinese cyberspace. The language of this country is characterized by the abundance of homonyms, so that a single sound can have many meanings. So, These expressions are constructed from their phonetic similarity with the expression to which they refer.although this is blurred when changing languages. They have been used there for many years, and their popularity has led to be adopted by users of other languages.
What to respond if someone sends you the number 7642 on WhatsApp
Logically, this will depend on the relationship you have with the person who sent the message. But if you want to continue with the same communication format, you have several options:
- 520: ‘wo ai ni’ or ‘I love you’.
- 360: ‘I miss you’.
- 775885: ‘kiss me, hug me’.
- 1437: ‘I love you forever’ or ‘I love you forever’, one of the best known
If you don’t want to reciprocate with the same affection, you can always use:
- 88: ‘bye bye’.
- 748: ‘go to hell’.
- 182: ‘I hate you’ or ‘I hate you’.