Kanji1 / 5
四 kanji
four
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
シ
Kun readings
よよつよっつよん
Variant forms
亖Words with 四
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —四国巡礼Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples); Shikoku pilgrim
- —四手辛夷star magnolia (Magnolia stellata)
- —上位四校schools of the upper quartile; highly ranked schools
- —第四の壁fourth wall (in fiction)
- —四足動物tetrapod
- —四肢麻痺quadriplegia; tetraplegia
- —四大不調falling ill (esp. of a monk); illness
- —二十四史Twenty-Four Histories; authoritative collection of twenty-four Chinese historical books
- —四強雄蕊tetradynamous stamen
- —四肢動物tetrapod; quadruped
- —五四運動May Fourth Movement (anti-imperialist student demonstration in Beijing on May 4, 1919)
- —四足歩行quadruped walking; walking on four legs
- —六道四生four kinds of birth in the six destinies
- —四大奇書Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature (Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, Water Margin, and The Plum in the Golden Vase)
- —四民平等equality for the four classes (early Meiji-period slogan)
- —四の五の(complaining about) this and that; one thing or another
- —故意四球intentional walk; intentional base on balls; IBB
- —四部合奏quartet; quartette; piece in four parts or voices
- —四角関係love quadrangle; four-way relationship
- —劇団四季Shiki Theatrical Company