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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
- —四有the four stages of existence: birth, life, death, and limbo
- —四更fourth watch of the night (approx. 1am to 3am)
- —四神four Taoist gods said to reign over the four directions; four gods said to reign over the four seasons
- —四獣four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear); four gods said to rule over the four directions
- —四劫the four kalpa (formation, existence, destruction, nothingness)
- —四胡sihu (4-stringed Chinese musical instrument played with a bow)
- —四衆four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees); four monastic communities (ordained monks, ordained nuns, male novices and female novices); the four assemblies
- —四光four 20-point cards (scoring combination)
- —四苦the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
- —四曼four types of mandala (in Shingon)
- —四大the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind); the human body; Tao, heaven, earth and king
- —四体head, trunk, arms, and legs; the whole body
- —四霊the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
- —四凶Four Perils (malevolent beings)
- —四瑞the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
- —四緑fourth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Jupiter and south-east)
- —四土four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara)
- —四気weather of the four seasons (warmth of spring, heat of summer, cool of autumn, and cold of winter)
- —四計plans for one's day, plans for one's year, plans for one's life, and plans for one's family
- —四魔the four kinds of demons that make trouble for sentient beings