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
- —四天王the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana); the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)
- —四六判shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); duodecimo
- —四分円quadrant
- —四辺形quadrilateral; quadrangle; tetragon
- —四半分a fourth; quarter
- —四旬節Lent
- —四角柱quadrangular prism
- —四面体tetrahedron
- —長四角rectangle
- —四季報quarterly (journal)
- —四神獣four divine beasts; guardian deities of the four cardinal points
- —四本柱four posts that used to support the roof over the ring
- —赤四手loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora); akashide
- —四分位quartile
- —四脚門style of temple gate featuring four supporting pillars and a gabled roof
- —四種姓varna (each of India's four castes)
- —四国稗finger millet (Eleusine coracana)
- —四部衆four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
- —犬四手Chonowski's hornbeam (Carpinus tschonoskii)
- —熊四手Japanese hornbeam (Carpinus japonica)