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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
- —四苦八苦being in dire distress; being hard put to it; being hard pressed (for money); the four and eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)
- —四元速度four velocity
- —四通八達traffic network extending in all directions
- —四分五裂torn asunder; disrupted and disorganized
- —四方八方all directions; every direction; all sides; all quarters; everywhere
- —四面楚歌being surrounded by enemies on all sides; being betrayed (forsaken) by everybody
- —四六時中around the clock; day and night
- —朝三暮四being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another
- —四十八手the 48 basic techniques; every trick in the book; the 48 basic sexual positions
- —四角四面square; formal; prim; stuffy
- —四分音符quarter note; crotchet
- —正四面体regular tetrahedron
- —四十九日forty-ninth day after a person's death
- —四月馬鹿April fool
- —四百四病every type of disease
- —四百余州all China
- —四季咲きblooming in each season
- —四海同胞universal brotherhood
- —四部合唱four-part harmony
- —四角張るto be square; to be angular; to be formal; to be stiff; to be strict