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四: four
JLPT N55 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
囗 carries the meaning · 儿 is drawn in
5 strokes
Bronze · Spring and Autumn Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Five readings, and the words that use each
シshi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 四月しがつApril
- 四角しかくsquare
- 四国しこくShikoku
- 四季しきfour seasons
よyo · kun'yomi · on its own
- 四時よじ4 o'clock
よつyotsu · kun'yomi
- 四つ角よつかどcrossroads
よっつyottsu · kun'yomi
- 四つよっつ4 (objects)
- 四日よっか4 days, 4th of the month
よんyon · kun'yomi
- 四回よんかい4 times
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
Source: Wiktionary, 四 (rev. 93386109), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine a sturdy wall encircling a city! This radical completely wraps around other elements, containing them safely within its borders like a fence or a country's frontier.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side四 four · 儿
vs囚 captured · 人In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · sì
Same form: 四 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 四 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 四 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin sì most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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