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Kanji Information Sheet for 四 ( 
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| English: four | On-Yomi: シ | Kun-Yomi: よ よ.つ よっ.つ よん あ つ よつ |
Bushu (Radical) Info: 囗 (くにがまえ) – box
Henshall Mnemonic: four fingers in clenched fist
Levels: JLPT N5 | JLPT 4 (old) | Grade 1
Frequency: #47 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #47 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N5 Words
- 四日 [よっか]
(n) (1) 4th day of month; (2) four days [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四百 [よんひゃく]
four hundred [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四 [し]
(num) four [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四 [よん]
(num) four [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四つ [よっつ]
(n) four [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四月 [しがつ]
(n-adv) April [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N2 Words
- 四つ角 [よつかど]
(n) four corners; crossroads [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四角 [しかく]
(adj-na,n) square [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四角い [しかくい]
(adj) square [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四季 [しき]
(n) four seasons [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四捨五入 [ししゃごにゅう]
(n,vs) rounding up (esp. fractions) [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 四半期 [しはんき]
(n) quarter (of a year) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四方 [しほう]
(n) every direction [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四本 [よんほん]
(adj) four (long cylindrical things) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四輪車 [よんりんしゃ]
automobile; car [K] [D] [Jisho] - 二十四時間制 [にじゅうよじかんせい]
(n) around-the-clock system [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十四 [じゅうよん]
14; fourteen [K] [D] [Jisho] - 真四角 [ましかく]
(adj-na,n) square [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四球 [しきゅう]
(n) four balls; base on balls (baseball); a walk [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四隅 [よすみ]
(n) four corners [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四死球 [ししきゅう]
(n) four dead balls (baseball) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四肢 [しし]
(n) limbs; extremities [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四十 [よんじゅう]
forty [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四十七士 [しじゅうしちし]
Forty-Seven Loyal Retainers [K] [D] [Jisho] - 六十四分音符 [ろくじゅうしぶおんぷ]
64th note [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四重奏 [しじゅうそう]
(n) instrumental quartet [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四畳半 [よじょうはん]
(n) 4 1; 2 Tatami mats [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四千 [よんせん]
four thousand [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.