Words
Words with 四
Kanji 四, meaning four, appears in 422 Japanese vocabulary entries.
卌
しじゅう
forty
四苦八苦
しくはっく
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)
左四つ
ひだりよつ
hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the left hand and an over-arm grip with the right
右四つ
みぎよつ
hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the right hand and an overarm grip with the left
一眼二足三胆四力
いちがんにそくさんたんしりき
firstly vision, secondly footwork, thirdly courage, fourthly technique (the most important aspects of kendo)
一都一道二府四十三県
いっといちどうにふよんじゅうさんけん
one metropolis (Tokyo), one "circuit" (Hokkaido), two urban prefectures (Osaka and Kyoto) and 43 prefectures proper
四・一六事件
しいちろくじけん
April 16 incident (arrests of communists and members of other anti-government groups; 1929)
四つの自由
よっつのじゆう
the Four Freedoms (as defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear)