Japanese Words Containing 四

Word	Reading	Definition	JLPT
四月	しがつ	April; fourth month in the lunar calendar	n5
四方	しほう	the four cardinal directions; north, east, south and west; all directions; surroundings	n1
四つ	よっつ	four; 4; four years of age; ten o'clock (in the old time system)	n5
四国	しこく	Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)
四角	しかく	quadrilateral; square	n3
四	し	four; 4	n5
四季	しき	the four seasons	n3
四畳半	よじょうはん	four and a half tatami mats; four-and-a-half-mat room; small room esp. for assignations
四辺	しへん	neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity; all sides
四肢	しし	the (four) limbs; arms and legs
四方八方	しほうはっぽう	all directions; every direction; all sides; all quarters
四囲	しい	surroundings; circumference
四角い	しかくい	square; rectangular	n3
四半	しはん	quarter; a fourth; square (piece of) cloth	n2
四辻	よつつじ	crossroads; intersection; crossway; carrefour
四隅	よすみ	four corners; four ordinal directions
四面	しめん	four sides; all sides	n1
四隣	しりん	whole neighborhood; whole neighbourhood; surrounding countries
四海	しかい	the whole world; the seven seas	n3
四足	よつあし	four-legged; four-footed; (four-legged) animal; beast
四天王	してんのう	the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana); the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)
四散	しさん	scattering (in all directions)	n1
真四角	ましかく	square
四つ角	よつかど	four corners; crossroads; intersecting street; street corner
四半期	しはんき	quarter (of a year)
四阿	あずまや	arbor; arbour; bower; summer house
四角張る	しかくばる	to be square; to be angular; to be formal; to be stiff
四書	ししょ	the Four Books (Confucian texts)	n2
四民	しみん	the four social classes (of Edo-period Japan; samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants)	n4
四川	しせん	Sichuan (China); Szechuan; Szechwan	n2
四つん這い	よつんばい	crawling on all fours; being on all fours; being on one's hands and knees
四人	よにん	four people
四十雀	しじゅうから	Japanese tit (Parus minor); Oriental tit
四苦八苦	しくはっく	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)
四つ辻	よつつじ	crossroads; intersection; crossway; carrefour
四六時中	しろくじちゅう	around the clock; day and night
四股	しこ	wrestler's ceremonial leg raising and stomping
四年	よねん	four years
四角形	しかくけい	quadrilateral; quadrangle; tetragon
四段	よだん	fourth dan (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)	n1
四一	しっぴん	scoring combination of a 4 and a 1 in oicho-kabu
四大	よんだい	university or college offering four-year programs; the big four ...; the four major ...
四顧	しこ	looking everywhere; looking in all four directions; neighborhood; vicinity
四通八達	しつうはったつ	traffic network extending in all directions
四分五裂	しぶんごれつ	torn asunder; disrupted and disorganized
再三再四	さいさんさいし	repeatedly
四面楚歌	しめんそか	being surrounded by enemies on all sides; being betrayed (forsaken) by everybody
藤四郎	とうしろ	amateur; novice; layman
四球	しきゅう	base on balls; walk; pass	n2
四角四面	しかくしめん	square; formal; prim; stuffy
四日	よっか	4th day of the month; four days	n5
四つんばい	よつんばい	crawling on all fours; being on all fours; being on one's hands and knees
四半分	しはんぶん	a fourth; quarter
四方山話	よもやまばなし	talk about various topics
四半世紀	しはんせいき	quarter of a century
四君子	しくんし	the four gentlemen (plum, chrysanthemum, orchid, and bamboo)
四声	しせい	four tones (of Chinese)	n3
四百余州	しひゃくよしゅう	all China
四種	よんしゅ	four kinds; four sorts; fourth-class mail
四諦	したい	The Four Noble Truths
四時	よじ	four o'clock
四捨五入	ししゃごにゅう	rounding (off; a number); rounding half away from zero; rounding off (views); converging to a common opinion
四年生	よねんせい	fourth-year student
四拍子	よんびょうし	quadruple time; four-four time; common time; the four instruments in the accompanying orchestra in noh, etc. (flute, floor drum, small hand drum, large hand drum)
四方拝	しほうはい	Prayer to the Four Quarters (Japanese imperial New Year's ceremony)
四本柱	しほんばしら	four posts that used to support the roof over the ring
四手	しで	zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects; hornbeam (deciduous tree in the birch family)
四緑	しろく	fourth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Jupiter and south-east)
四重奏	しじゅうそう	instrumental quartet
四分六	しぶろく	six to four ratio; sixty-forty
四男	よんなん	fourth son
四十九日	しじゅうくにち	forty-ninth day after a person's death
四恩	しおん	four gratitudes (to one's parents, all living beings, one's sovereign and the Three Jewels); four obligations
四十路	よそじ	age forty; one's forties
四十八手	しじゅうはって	the 48 basic techniques; every trick in the book; the 48 basic sexual positions
四海兄弟	しかいけいてい	people in the whole world being all brothers; universal brotherhood
四姓	しせい	the four Hindu castes; the four great families of the Heian period (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)	n3
四輪	よんりん	four-wheeled
四等官	しとうかん	four administrative positions (of the ritsuryō system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
四百四病	しひゃくしびょう	every type of disease
四聖	しせい	the four great sages (Buddha, Christ, Confucius, Socrates)	n3
四則	しそく	four (fundamental) rules of arithmetic
第四	だいよん	fourth
十四日	じゅうよっか	14th day of the month; 14 days
三寒四温	さんかんしおん	alternation of three cold and four warm days (usu. in late winter and early spring)
張三李四	ちょうさんりし	the common run of men; the average Joe; good-for-nothing (person)
一九八四年	せんきゅうひゃくはちじゅうよねん	Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949 novel by George Orwell)
十四	じゅうし	fourteen; 14	n2
四度	よんど	four times; four-colour process printing; CMYK printing
四つ葉	よつば	plant having four leaves on one stalk
四股名	しこな	wrestler's stage name
四季咲き	しきざき	blooming in each season
四位	しい	fourth court rank
四周	ししゅう	periphery; circumference
四死球	ししきゅう	bases on balls and pitches striking the batsmen
四字熟語	よじじゅくご	four-character compound word (esp. idiomatic)
平行四辺形	へいこうしへんけい	parallelogram
四丁	シチョウ	ladder	n3
四分	しぶん	dividing into four; quartering
四本	よんほん	four (long cylindrical things)

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