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
- —六十四卦the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching
- —四半世紀quarter of a century
- —四書五経the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism; the Nine Chinese Classics
- —四海兄弟people in the whole world being all brothers; universal brotherhood
- —四季折々from season to season; season by season; of each season; in each season
- —四肢五体the whole body
- —四十不惑at age forty, one has no doubts
- —二十四気the 24 seasonal divisions of a year in the old lunar calendar
- —四則演算four arithmetic operations; basic arithmetic operations
- —四神相応an ideal topography for the four Taoist gods, with a river in the east, a broad avenue in the west, a basin in the south, and a hill in the north
- —四柱推命Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth
- —文房四宝the four tools of writing (brush, ink, inkstone and paper)
- —四方反鉋wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade
- —張三李四the common run of men; the average Joe; good-for-nothing (person)
- —四公六民land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%
- —四国地方Shikoku region (incl. Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures)
- —又四郎尺Matashirō shaku (approx. 30.26 cm)
- —四手の木loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora)
- —四川料理Szechuan cuisine; Sichuan cuisine
- —四国遍路Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples); Shikoku pilgrim