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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
- —四等官four administrative positions (of the ritsuryō system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
- —雨四光the Ono no Michikaze card and three other 20-point cards (scoring combination)
- —四方拝Prayer to the Four Quarters (Japanese imperial New Year's ceremony)
- —四大節the four grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday, Emperor Meiji's birthday; 1927-1948)
- —島四国small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (Awaji Island, Shōdoshima, etc.)
- —四君子the four gentlemen (plum, chrysanthemum, orchid, and bamboo)
- —四分儀quadrant (instrument)
- —四重禁four grave prohibitions (killing, theft, adultery, and deceit)
- —四角豆winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus)
- —四足獣quadruped; four-footed animal
- —紺四郎consul
- —四分法fractional sampling; method of quartering; quartation; method of lunar calendar formulation
- —四方竹Tetragonocalamus quadrangularis (type of bamboo); Chimonobambusa quadrangularis
- —四畿内Four Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, and Kawachi; made obsolete in 757)
- —四王天heaven of the Four Great Kings; one of the six heavens of the desire realm
- —四の二rolling a two and four (with two dice); six
- —四不像Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus); milu; elpahure
- —藤四郎amateur; novice; layman
- —四川省Sichuan (China); Szechuan; Szechwan
- —四角錐quadrangular pyramid