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
- —エチレンジアミン四酢酸ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid; EDTA
- —丸い卵も切りようで四角harsh words make the going rough; consider your words; a round egg can be cut into a square
- —無くて七癖有って四十八癖every person has their eccentricities
- —弥四stallkeeper (at a festival, fair, etc.); street vendor; street performer; peddler; hawker; huckster; faker
- —四馬four-horse carriage
- —四丁ladder
- —四絃four strings; four-stringed instrument; biwa
- —ま四角square
- —四季施servant's clothes provided by an employer; livery
- —四六版shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); duodecimo
- —紙四手zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects
- —四月病euphoria experienced by college students or workplace recruits at the beginning of school or work
- —四手拳star magnolia (Magnolia stellata)
- —籐四郎amateur; novice; layman
- —真っ四角square
- —四月バカApril fool
- —四角ばるto be square; to be angular; to be formal; to be stiff; to be strict
- —四季折折from season to season; season by season; of each season; in each season
- —文房四寶the four tools of writing (brush, ink, inkstone and paper)
- —炭素十四carbon-14