Word Meaning

よん yon

四 is read as よん (yon) and means four.

Meaning

English

  1. four
  2. 4

Reading

Kana

よん

Romaji

yon

Writing Variants

  • 4 shi
  • shi
  • yo
  • shi

Stroke Sequence

1 Characters • 5 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N5 Jōyō Grade 1 Kanken 10級 Rank 42 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

四十

よんじゅう

forty

四つ

よっつ

burakumin

四千

よんせん

four thousand

四本

よんほん

four (long cylindrical things)

四人

よにん

four people

四月

しがつ

April

四日

よっか

4th day of the month

四川

しせん

Sichuan (China)

四百

よんひゃく

400

四十九日

しじゅうくにち

forty-ninth day after a person's death

四六時中

しろくじちゅう

around the clock

四国

しこく

Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)

Example Sentences

10

けいやくしょではしがよんのかわりにつかわれることがある。

In contracts, this character is sometimes used in place of the number four.

このじのしにはよんといういみがある。

This character has the meaning of four.

Look! A four-leafed clover!

April Fool's!

It's April first.

Twice two is equal to four.

I'm forty years old.

My younger sister is 4 years old.

I'll wait till four o'clock.

Four legs good, two legs bad.