Kanji: 四

    • Meaning : four
    • ON reading :
    • KUN reading : よ,よ.つ,よっ.つ,よん
    • Nanori : あ,つ,よつ
    • Stroke count : 5
    • Frequency of use ranking : 47
    • Jouyou grade level : 1
    • JLPT : 4
    • Radical :

Words containing that kanji:


  • か - しかいなみしずか - The world is at peace
  • まっ - まっしかく - square
  • 鹿 - よつめじか | ヨツメジカ - Chinese muntjac (species of barking deer, Muntiacus reevesi)
  • - じょういしこう - schools of the upper quartile/highly ranked schools
  • - よんりん - four-wheeled
  • - よじげんちょうりっぽうたい - tesseract
  • - しへんけいこうし - quadrilateral mesh
  • - ししゃごにゅうきのう - round-off function/rounding
  • - いってんしかい - the world/the universe
  • - しもしはんき - last quarter (of the year)
  • - しましこく - small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (i.e. on Awaji Island)
  • - しまん - four types of mandala (in Shingon)
  • - しこくはちじゅうはっかしょ - 88 temples of Shikoku (holy spots related to Kobo Daishi)
  • - しだいせつ - the four grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday, Emperor Meiji's birthday; 1927-1948)
  • - しほうはい - Prayer to the Four Quarters (Japanese imperial New Year's ceremony)
  • | - しこくじゅんれい - Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples)/Shikoku pilgrim
  • - げんがくしじゅうそうきょく - string quartet
  • 4 | - だいよん - fourth
  • - しこくへんろ - Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples)/Shikoku pilgrim
  • - ししゅまんだら - four types of mandala (in Shingon)
  • - しく - the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
  • - しこう - (in hanafuda) the collection of the four light cards
  • | 4 - よんかいせい - fourth year (college) student/senior
  • - しせんりょうり - Szechuan cuisine/Sichuan cuisine
  • - よんく - four-wheel drive
  • - しでのき - loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora)
  • - しとうかん - four administrative positions (of the ritsuryo system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
  • - さいさんさいし - repeatedly
  • - くましで | クマシデ - Japanese hornbeam (Carpinus japonica)
  • - またしろうじゃく - Matajirou shaku (approx. 30.26 cm)
  • つ | 4つ - よっつ - four
  • のクローバー - よつばのクローバー - four-leaf clover
  • - しき - four seasons
  • - よけた - four-digit number/thousands column
  • - しし - limbs/extremities
  • - ししゃごにゅう - rounding up (esp. fractions)
  • - しせん - Sichuan (China)/Szechuan/Szechwan
  • - しはんき - quarter (of a year)
  • - しほう | よも - every direction
  • - よんりんしゃ - automobile/car
  • - あめしこう - (in hanafuda) a collection of the rain and three non-rain light cards
  • - さんかんしおん - alternation of three cold and four warm days
  • - よつかど - four corners/crossroads
  • い - しかくい - square/rectangular
  • - しくはっく - being in dire distress/being hard put to it | the four and eight kinds of suffering
  • - しげんそくど - four velocity (physics)
  • - よじ - 4 o'clock
  • - しじゅうそう - instrumental quartet
  • ての - よんとうだてのばしゃ - coach and four/four horse coach
  • - しぶんごれつ | しぶごれつ - torn asunder/disrupted and disorganized
  • - しめんそか - being surrounded by enemies on all sides/being betrayed (forsaken) by everybody
  • - よつあし - four-footed (animal)
  • - しかくけい | しかっけい - square/quadrilateral/quadrangle
  • - よすみ - four corners
  • - しこく - Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)
  • - よじげん | しじげん - fourth dimension/four dimensions
  • - よじょうはん - 4.5 tatami mats
  • | - よっか - fourth day of month | four days
  • - しへん - four-sided
  • - よんりんくどうしゃ - four-wheel-drive car
  • つんい | つんばい - よっつんばい | よつんばい - (crawl) on all fours/on one's hands and feet/falling flat
  • - しかく - square
  • - しきゅう - four balls/base on balls (baseball)/a walk
  • | - しがつ - April
  • - よじじゅくご - four-character idiomatic compounds
  • - しじゅうから | しじゅうがら | シジュウカラ | シジュウガラ - great tit (Parus major)
  • - しつうはったつ - traffic network extending in all directions
  • - しぶん - divide into four pieces/one fourth
  • - しほうはっぽう - in all directions
  • - しろくじちゅう - around the clock/day and night (Note: 4 x 6 = 24)
  • - いぬしで | イヌシデ - Chonowski's hornbeam (Carpinus tschonoskii)
  • - しぶしゅ - four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
  • - よんばいたい | しばいたい - tetraploid
  • - しこ - sihu (4-stringed Chinese musical instrument played with a bow)
  • - しじゅうからがん | シジュウカラガン - Aleutian Canada goose (Branta canadensis leucopareia)
  • - ししゅ | ししゅう - four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees) | four monastic communities (ordained monks, ordained nuns, male novices and female novices) | (in Tendai) the four assemblies
  • - はちまんしせん - 84000 | many
  • - ましかく - square
  • - よんだいげんそ - the four classical chemical elements (fire, earth, air and water)
  • - だいたいしとうきん - quadriceps muscle
  • - しこう - the four kalpa (formation, existence, destruction, nothingness)
  • - しこくびえ | シコクビエ - finger millet (Eleusine coracana)
  • - だいよんき | だいしき - Quaternary period
  • コマ - よんコマ - four panel comic
  • - よつばしおがま | ヨツバシオガマ - Chamisso's lousewort (Pedicularis chamissonis var. japonica)
  • コマ - よんコマまんが - four panel comic
  • - ししゅせい - varna (each of India's four castes)
  • - しじん - four gods said to rule over the four directions | (in China) four gods said to rule over the four seasons
  • | 14 - たんそじゅうしほう - carbon-14 dating/radiocarbon dating
  • | ケイ - しえんかケイそ | しえんかけいそ - silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4)
  • - ししょくていり | よんしょくていり - four-color theorem (colour) (theorem stating that any map can be colored such that no two adjacent segments have the same color, if only four colors are used)
  • - ちょうさんぼし - being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance
  • - しじゅう - four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear) | four gods said to rule over the four directions
  • | 14 - たんそじゅうし - carbon-14
  • - しえんかたんそ - carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)
  • | | あずま - あずまや - arbor/arbour/bower/summer house/square gazebo
  • - にじゅうよじかんせい - around-the-clock system
  • - しこくちほう - Shikoku region (inc. Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures)
  • - にじゅうしせっき - 24 divisions of the solar year/24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons
  • - よだんかつよう - conjugation (inflection, declension) of godan verbs (as represented by archaic kana usage)
  • - しこうろくみん - land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%
  • - しう - (in Buddhism) the four stages of existence: birth, life, death, and limbo
  • - しこう - fourth watch of the night (approx. 1 am to 3 am)
  • - よつば - plant having four leaves on one stalk
  • - したい - The Four Noble Truths (of Buddhism)
  • つにむ - よつにくむ - to come to grapples with
  • - へいこうしへんけい - parallelogram
  • - ぶんぼうしほう - in calligraphy, the four important tools of brush, ink stone, ink stick, and paper
  • - よんだんかつよう - yodan verb conjugation (verb form of classical Japanese)
  • りかんな | | | かんな - しほうそりかんな - wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade
  • - ちょうさんりし - the common run of men/the average Joe/good-for-nothing (person)
  • - めいじじゅうよねんのせいへん - the failed Meiji-14 coup of 1881
  • - しきゃくもん | よつあしもん - style of temple gate featuring four supporting pillars and a gabled roof
  • - ろくじゅうしぶおんぷ - 64th note
  • - しぶんい - quartile
  • - しじゅうはって - the 48 basic sumo techniques/every trick in the book
  • - しがつびょう - optimism experienced by college students or workplace recruits at the beginning of school or work
  • - じゅうし | じゅうよん - 14/fourteen
  • - し | よん | よ - four
  • | - しこな - Sumo wrestler's stage name
  • う - しのごのいう - to grumble about something (trivial)
  • - しそくえんざん - four arithmetic operations/basic arithmetic operations
  • | - かみしで | しで - paper shide/zig-zag cut paper (used to ward off or expel evil spirits)
  • - しちゅうすいめい - Four Pillar astrology/originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth
  • | - あかしで | アカシデ - loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora)/akashide
  • | - たんよんがた - AAA 700 size (battery)
  • | - くんくんしい - type of Ryuukyuu stringed instrument music
  • - しじんそうおう - 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
  • - よじせいく - Chinese four-character phrase or idiomatic expression
  • - しさん - scattering (in all directions)
  • - にじゅうしき - the 24 seasonal divisions of a year in the old lunar calendar
  • - にじゅうよっか - twenty-fourth day of the month
  • - ししごたい - the (one's) whole body
  • - しじゅうふわく - At forty, one has no doubts. (Confucius)
  • - しかくしめんなひと - prim (stuffy) person/squared-toed person
  • - よつご - quadruplets
  • - よもじご - four-letter word (English)
  • - じゅうよっか - fourteenth day of the month
  • - しじゅうしょう - vocal quartet/four-part chorus
  • - しかくしめん - square/formal
  • - しぶろく - six to four ratio/sixty-forty
  • - よんじゅう | しじゅう | よそ - forty
  • - よんびょうし | しびょうし - quadruple time
  • 々 | - しきおりおり - from season to season/season by season/of each season/in each season
  • - しかい - the whole world/the seven seas
  • - しひゃくしびょうのほか - love-sickness
  • - ししきゅう - four dead balls (baseball)
  • - よつめがき - square-patterned bamboo fence/lattice fence
  • - ししょごきょう - the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism/the Nine Chinese Classics
  • - しかいけいてい - people in the whole world being all brothers/universal brotherhood
  • - しぶおんぷ | しぶんおんぷ - quarter note/crotchet
  • り - よつぎり - cutting into four/quarter/photograph size 254mm x 305 mm
  • - しほんばしら - four posts that used to support the roof over the sumo ring
  • - ししょう - four images/four symbols/four emblems/four phenomena/four phases
  • - しぶさ - four tassels hung above the sumo ring
  • - よつみ - cross-grips (situation in which each rikishi has an underarm grip on the other) (sumo) | kimono made for young children
  • つ - とくいよつ - sumo wrestler's favourite (favorite) grip on the belt
  • - しい - the surrounding barbarians (from Chinese)
  • - しじんじゅう - four divine beasts/guardian deities of the four cardinal points
  • | - よんとうごらく - sleep four hours pass, sleep five hours fail/four-pass, five fail
  • - よんほん - four (long cylindrical things)
  • | | - やし - showman/charlatan/faker/quack
  • - しはんきしゅうえきはっぴょう - quarterly earnings announcement
  • - しはんきしゅうえき - quarterly earnings
  • - せいしめんたい - regular tetrahedron
  • - よんなん - fourth son
  • - よにん | よたり | よったり - four people
  • - だいよんかいきゅう - the fourth estate/the proletariat
  • - してんのう - the Four Devas/the big four
  • - よつであみ - four-armed scoop net
  • - しへんけい - quadrilateral
  • - しひゃくしびょう - every type of disease
  • - しかくちゅう - quadrangular prism
  • - しこ - sumo wrestler ceremonial leg raising and stomping
  • - しめん - four sides/all sides
  • - しぶがっしょう - four-part harmony
  • - しこ - look everywhere
  • - げんがくしじゅうそう - string quartet
  • - しじゅうくにち - forty-ninth day after a person's death
  • - しろくばん - duodecimo
  • 鹿 | 4鹿 - しがつばか - April fool | April fool's day
  • - しはんぶん - a fourth/quarter
  • - しひゃくよしゅう - all China
  • - しせい - four tones (of Chinese)
  • - よつずもう - sumo wrestling in which both wrestlers grasp the other's belt with both hands
  • - しめんたい - tetrahedron
  • - しせい - the four great sages (Buddha, Christ, Confucius, Socrates)
  • - よんじょ - fourth-born daughter
  • - しゅうよっか - four days a week
  • - しじゅうかた - shoulder pain (at about age forty)
  • - しぶんえん - quadrant
  • - よもやまばなし - talk about various topics
  • - よつめ - four-eyed/pattern of four squares
  • - しじゅんせつ - Lent
  • - しい - surroundings/circumference
  • - しじゅう - fourfold
  • - しじ - the four seasons
  • - よんりんくどう - four-wheel drive
  • - よんせん - four thousand
  • | | - しで - zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects | hornbeam (deciduous tree in the birch family)
  • - しみん - the four social classes (samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants)/the masses
  • - よんひゃく - four hundred
  • - しかくごうま - four-corner kanji character stroke classification system
  • き - しきざき - blooming in each season
  • - しかいどうほう - universal brotherhood
  • - ししょ - the Four Books (Confucian texts)
  • - しりん - whole neighborhood/whole neighbourhood/surrounding countries
  • - ながしかく - rectangle
  • - しそく - four (fundamental) rules of arithmetic
  • - よそじ - age forty/one's forties
  • - しはんせいき - quarter of a century
  • - よねんせい - student in his (her) fourth year/fourth-year student
  • - げんがくしじゅうそうだん - string quartet
  • つ - みぎよつ - sumo hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the right hand and an overarm grip with the left
  • る - しかくばる - to be angular/to be formal
  • つ - ひだりよつ - sumo hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the left hand and an over-arm grip with the right
  • き - よなぬき - pentatonic scale (music)
  • - よつつじ - crossroads/intersection
  • - しきほう - quarterly (journal)
  • - ろくじゅうしけ - the 64 hexagrams (of the Book of Changes)
  • - よにんぐみ - four man group | the Gang of Four
  • - しせい - the four great families of the age (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan) | varna (each of the four Hindu castes)
  • - ししゅう - periphery/circumference
  • - しじゅうしちし - The 47 Ronin