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
- —四海the whole world; the seven seas
- —四手zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects; hornbeam (deciduous tree in the birch family)
- —四民the four social classes (of Edo-period Japan; samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants)
- —四声four tones (of Chinese)
- —四囲surroundings; circumference
- —四股wrestler's ceremonial leg raising and stomping
- —四重fourfold
- —四面four sides; all sides
- —四時the four seasons
- —四書the Four Books (Confucian texts)
- —四聖the four great sages (Buddha, Christ, Confucius, Socrates)
- —四隣whole neighborhood; whole neighbourhood; surrounding countries
- —四顧looking everywhere; looking in all four directions; neighborhood; vicinity
- —四周periphery; circumference
- —四姓the four Hindu castes; the four great families of the Heian period (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)
- —四則four (fundamental) rules of arithmetic
- —四房four tassels hung above the ring
- —四象four images; four symbols; four emblems; four phenomena; four phases
- —四夷Four Barbarians (non-Chinese peoples bordering ancient China)
- —四諦The Four Noble Truths