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
- —四至four sides (boundaries) of a property
- —四端the four beginnings (in Mencius's belief in humanity's innate goodness); the four sprouts
- —四位fourth court rank
- —四診the four examinations (in Chinese medicine: seeing, hearing, asking, touching)
- —四足four legs; four-legged; quadruped
- —四維four ordinal directions; four cardinal principles of the state (propriety, justice, integrity, sense of shame)
- —四生the four ways of birth (from a womb, an egg, moisture or spontaneously); catur-yoni
- —四愛the four loves (chrysanthemum, lotus, plum, and orchid; as painting subjects)
- —手四four-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand)
- —四三one four-of-a-kind and one three-of-a-kind in a dealt hand; three and a four (in dice games)
- —四恩four gratitudes (to one's parents, all living beings, one's sovereign and the Three Jewels); four obligations
- —四半quarter; a fourth; square (piece of) cloth
- —四相four essential elements of existence (birth, ageing, illness and death); four-phase; quadri-phase
- —四弦four strings; four-stringed instrument; biwa
- —四六four and six (minutes, etc.); twenty-four (product of four and six); shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words
- —四角形quadrilateral; quadrangle; tetragon
- —四股名wrestler's stage name
- —四重唱vocal quartet; four-part chorus
- —四分六six to four ratio; sixty-forty
- —四十肩shoulder pain occurring in one's 40s