four; 4; four years of age; ten o'clock (in the old time system); burakumin; cross grips
the four cardinal directions; north, east, south and west; surroundings; many countries; the whole world; all around; here and there
4th day of the month; four days
the (four) limbs; arms and legs
April; fourth month in the lunar calendar
four (long cylindrical things)
Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)
crawling on all fours; being on all fours; being on one's hands and knees
all directions; every direction; all sides; all quarters; everywhere
around the clock; day and night
the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana); the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)
dividing into four; quartering
24 hours; twenty-four hours
four times; four-colour process printing; CMYK printing
scattering (in all directions)
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)
four corners; four ordinal directions
university or college offering four-year programs; the big four ...; the four major ...
14th day of the month; 14 days
24th day of the month; 24 days
four times (as much); quadruple; fourfold
four and a half tatami mats; four-and-a-half-mat room; small room esp. for assignations
foursome; group of four people; Gang of Four (Maoist political faction)
four-eyed; pattern of four squares
to grumble about something (trivial)
the four most important tournaments in a particular sport; grand slam tournaments; majors
crawling on all fours; being on all fours; being on one's hands and knees
one four-of-a-kind and one three-of-a-kind in a dealt hand; three and a four (in dice games)
quadrilateral; quadrangle; tetragon
four characters; four letters
neighbourhood; neighborhood; all sides; frontiers (of a country); four sides (of a shape)
four-legged; four-footed; (four-legged) animal; beast
quadruped walking; walking on four legs
four legs; four-legged; quadruped
arbor; arbour; bower; summer house; square gazebo
quarter; a fourth; square (piece of) cloth
four Taoist gods said to reign over the four directions; four gods said to reign over the four seasons
being surrounded by enemies on all sides; being betrayed (forsaken) by everybody
fourth dimension; four dimensions; 4D
rounding (off; a number); rounding half away from zero; rounding off (views); converging to a common opinion
the four northern islands (held by Russia); south Kuril Islands; northern territories
four generations; fourth generation immigrant; yonsei; the fourth (e.g. George IV)
Sichuan (China); Szechuan; Szechwan
four-legged; four-footed; (four-legged) animal; beast
forty-ninth day after a person's death
surroundings; circumference
Shikoku region (incl. Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures)
quadruped; four-footed animal
the four great sages (Buddha, Christ, Confucius, Socrates)
four-digit number; thousands column
folding into four; quarto
the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind); the human body; Tao, heaven, earth and king
from season to season; season by season; of each season; in each season
four-character compound word (esp. idiomatic)
four corners; crossroads; intersecting street; street corner
plant having four leaves on one stalk
Sichuan (China); Szechuan; Szechwan
(complaining about) this and that; one thing or another
wrestler's ceremonial leg raising and stomping
square; formal; prim; stuffy
crossroads; intersection; crossway; carrefour
base on balls; walk; pass
crossroads; intersection; crossway; carrefour
hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the right hand and an overarm grip with the left
whole neighborhood; whole neighbourhood; surrounding countries
fourth year of elementary school; fourth year elementary school student
the whole world; the seven seas
talk about various topics
wrestling in which both wrestlers grasp the other's belt with both hands
four-wheel-drive car; 4WD car
four-panel comic strip; yonkoma
first quarter (of the year)
zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects; hornbeam (deciduous tree in the birch family)
the four classical chemical elements (fire, earth, air and water)
grappling firmly; being locked together
four-character compound word (usu. idiomatic)
14th day of the month; 14 days
four arithmetic operations; basic arithmetic operations
four-panel comic strip; yonkoma
to be square; to be angular; to be formal; to be stiff; to be strict
third quarter (of the year)
crawling on all fours; being on all fours; being on one's hands and knees
Four Perils (malevolent beings)
24th day of the month; 24 days
4D pocket; magical pocket that can hold any item
the four kinds of demons that make trouble for sentient beings
24 solar stems (terms used to denote the changing of the seasons); 24 divisions of the Chinese solar year
the 48 basic techniques; every trick in the book; the 48 basic sexual positions
love quadrangle; four-way relationship
hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the left hand and an over-arm grip with the right
four-legged; four-footed; (four-legged) animal; beast
the four gentlemen (plum, chrysanthemum, orchid, and bamboo)
torn asunder; disrupted and disorganized
second quarter (of the year)
four-of-a-kind and a pair in a dealt hand
the four social classes (of Edo-period Japan; samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants)
folding into four; quarto
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)
coach and four; four horse coach
fourth quarter (of the year)
quadrilateral; quadrangle; tetragon
the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
to be square; to be angular; to be formal; to be stiff; to be strict
the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism; the Nine Chinese Classics
shoulder pain occurring in one's 40s
semifinalists; final four (in a tournament)
Szechuan cuisine; Sichuan cuisine
(emblem of) four comma-shaped figures arranged to form a circle; four-way fight; four-sided struggle
an ideal topography for the four Taoist gods, with a river in the east, a broad avenue in the west, a basin in the south, and a hill in the north
fourth year (college) student; senior
shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); duodecimo
four (fundamental) rules of arithmetic
looking everywhere; looking in all four directions; neighborhood; vicinity
six to four ratio; sixty-forty
four images; four symbols; four emblems; four phenomena; four phases
four posts that used to support the roof over the ring
four-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand)
cutting into four; quarter; photograph size 254mm x 305 mm
Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples); Shikoku pilgrim
equality for the four classes (early Meiji-period slogan)
the Four Books (Confucian texts)
four concealed triplets (yakuman); four concealed three-of-a-kinds
four-on-the-floor; four-to-the-floor
yoko-shiho-gatame (judo hold in which the opponent's shoulders and hips are pinned)
square-patterned bamboo fence; lattice fence
four strings; four-stringed instrument; biwa
four 20-point cards (scoring combination)
fundamental interactions; four fundamental forces of nature
passage of the seasons; change of the four seasons
the four signs of orthodox Buddhism
The Hyakujushi Bank; 114 Bank
the fourth estate; the proletariat
Prayer to the Four Quarters (Japanese imperial New Year's ceremony)
rolling a two and four (with two dice); six
four strings; four-stringed instrument; biwa
Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth
four-legged; four-footed; (four-legged) animal; beast
traffic network extending in all directions
the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching
the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
May Fourth Movement (anti-imperialist student demonstration in Beijing on May 4, 1919)
88 temples of Shikoku (holy spots related to Kobo Daishi)
Japanese tit (Parus minor); Oriental tit
fourth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Jupiter and south-east)
(emblem of) four comma-shaped figures arranged to form a circle; four-way fight; four-sided struggle
the four ways of birth (from a womb, an egg, moisture or spontaneously); catur-yoni
alternation of three cold and four warm days (usu. in late winter and early spring)
bases on balls and pitches striking the batsmen
Shijō school of Japanese painting (late Edo period)
the four major pollution-caused illnesses (Minamata disease, Niigata Minamata disease, Yokkaichi asthma, Itai-itai disease); four big pollution diseases of Japan
tate-shiho-gatame (judo); vertical four-quarter hold
720ml bottle (of alcohol)
cross-grips (situation in which each rikishi has an underarm grip on the other); kimono made for young children
the four kalpa (formation, existence, destruction, nothingness)
(four) cardinal humors; cardinal humours
four divine beasts; guardian deities of the four cardinal points
style of temple gate featuring four supporting pillars and a gabled roof
ousting of vice-minister Ōkuma Shigenobu and his supporters from the Meiji government (1881)
Yom Kippur War; fourth Arab-Israeli war (October 6-25, 1973)
the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt; as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)
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)
large area; (lit.) four ri square (approx. 16 sq km); Edo
land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent)
the four top party executives (of the LDP)
four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear); four gods said to rule over the four directions
the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples); Shikoku pilgrim
quadrennial; recurring every four years; lasting four years
the four beginnings (in Mencius's belief in humanity's innate goodness); the four sprouts
April Theses; series of directives issued by Lenin after his return from exile
being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another
the Ono no Michikaze card and three other 20-point cards (scoring combination)
big four winds; winning hand containing four kongs or pungs of winds
humorism (ancient system of medicine); humoralism; humoral theory
four-letter word (esp. in English)
heaven of the Four Great Kings; one of the six heavens of the desire realm
quadrennial; recurring every four years; lasting four years
Four Barbarians (non-Chinese peoples bordering ancient China)
four-wheeled light vehicle
four-wheeled light vehicle
four administrative positions (of the ritsuryō system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
sleep four hours and pass, sleep five hours and fail (when cramming for university entrance exams)
carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)
four-color problem; four-color map problem
quadriplegia; tetraplegia
shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); duodecimo
Fourth Investigation Division (of the Japanese police); division responsible for investigating organized crime and the yakuza
Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus); milu; elpahure
vocal quartet; four-part chorus
at age forty, one has no doubts
four essential elements of existence (birth, ageing, illness and death); four-phase; quadri-phase
the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India, and Egypt; as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)
yodan verb conjugation; verb conjugation of classical Japanese
Category IV infectious disease
first quarter (of the year)
Shimonoseki campaign (1863-1864); Shimonoseki bombardment
Chamisso's lousewort (Pedicularis chamissonis var. japonica)
four kinds of birth in the six destinies
four ordinal directions; four cardinal principles of the state (propriety, justice, integrity, sense of shame)
four-fold hardship; quadruple whammy
April 16 incident (arrests of communists and members of other anti-government groups; 1929)
fourth quarter (of the year)
people in the whole world being all brothers; universal brotherhood
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees); four monastic communities (ordained monks, ordained nuns, male novices and female novices); the four assemblies
four tassels hung above the ring
Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature (Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, Water Margin, and The Plum in the Golden Vase)
four gratitudes (to one's parents, all living beings, one's sovereign and the Three Jewels); four obligations
fourth ventricle; brain structure
one metropolis (Tokyo), one "circuit" (Hokkaido), two urban prefectures (Osaka and Kyoto) and 43 prefectures proper; prefectures of Japan
satipatthana; mindfulness
third quarter (of the year)
schools of the upper quartile; highly ranked schools
little four winds; winning hand consisting of three kongs or pungs of winds and a pair of the fourth wind
quartet; quartette; piece in four parts or voices
the four Fujiwara families; Fujiwara clan
four-color theorem; four-color map theorem
notation system for the sanshin
stallkeeper (at a festival, fair, etc.); street vendor; street performer; peddler; hawker; huckster
fourth toe; ring toe; outer toe (bird)
cutting into four; quarter; photograph size 254mm x 305 mm
four types of mandala (in Shingon)
the common run of men; the average Joe; good-for-nothing (person)
Siku Quanshu (collection of books from the Qing dynasty); Complete Library in Four Sections
quadrennial; recurring every four years; lasting four years
Twenty-Four Histories; authoritative collection of twenty-four Chinese historical books
quadriplegia; tetraplegia
yoko-shiho-gatame (judo hold in which the opponent's shoulders and hips are pinned)
crossroads; intersection; crossway; carrefour
yotsugana; the four kana (ji, di, zu, du)
four-letter word (vulgar English term, e.g. fuck)
zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects
the four tools of writing (brush, ink, inkstone and paper)
matched set of four arrows for target shooting
quadrennial; recurring every four years; lasting four years
abomasum (fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant); maw; rennet-bag
Tetragonocalamus quadrangularis (type of bamboo); Chimonobambusa quadrangularis
enjoying food, drink and entertainment in a small room
the four grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday, Emperor Meiji's birthday; 1927-1948)
folding into four; quarto
winning hand consisting of four kongs and a pair
Shikoku Gakuin University
si he yuan (traditional Chinese residential building)
quadrennial; recurring every four years; lasting four years
Genshi Shiroku (book of sayings by Satō Issai)
from season to season; season by season; of each season; in each season
four-panel comic strip; yonkoma
four-panel comic strip; yonkoma
best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
servant's clothes provided by an employer; livery
crawling on all fours; being on all fours; being on one's hands and knees
second quarter (of the year)
cutting into four; quarter; photograph size 254mm x 305 mm
quadrennial; recurring every four years; lasting four years
without complaining (about this and that); without arguing; without grumbling; with good grace
May Fourth Movement (anti-imperialist student demonstration in Beijing on May 4, 1919)
tate-shiho-gatame (judo); vertical four-quarter hold
Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples); Shikoku pilgrim
Aleutian Canada goose (Branta canadensis leucopareia)
Japanese hornbeam (Carpinus japonica)
April 16 incident (arrests of communists and members of other anti-government groups; 1929)
star magnolia (Magnolia stellata)
star magnolia (Magnolia stellata)
finger millet (Eleusine coracana)
four sides (boundaries) of a property
nishimuku samurai (mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days)
notation system for the sanshin
24 Hours of Le Mans; Le Mans 24-Hour Race
24 Hours of Le Mans; Le Mans 24-Hour Race
Russian tortoise (Agrionemys horsfieldii); Horsfield's tortoise; Central Asian tortoise; steppe tortoise; four-toed tortoise
carbon-14 dating; radiocarbon dating
carbon-14 dating; radiocarbon dating
the four tools of writing (brush, ink, inkstone and paper)
Chonowski's hornbeam (Carpinus tschonoskii)
bluestripe snapper (Lutjanus kasmira); bluestripe seaperch
last quarter (of the year)
64th note; hemidemisemiquaver; semidemisemiquaver
four-corner kanji character stroke classification system
quarterly earnings announcement
wrestler's favourite (favorite) grip on the belt
the 24 seasonal divisions of a year in the old lunar calendar
Chinese four-character phrase or idiomatic expression
euphoria experienced by college students or workplace recruits at the beginning of school or work
wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade
wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade
wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade
wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade
land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%
the four stages of existence: birth, life, death, and limbo
fourth watch of the night (approx. 1am to 3am)
silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4)
silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4)
varna (each of India's four castes)
thirty-four (orig. thirty-three) sacred places in and around Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture
sihu (4-stringed Chinese musical instrument played with a bow)
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
Matashirō shaku (approx. 30.26 cm)
loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora)
small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (Awaji Island, Shōdoshima, etc.)
four types of mandala (in Shingon)
round-off function; rounding
fourth generation language; 4GL
4-stringed biwa (Oriental lute)
four grave prohibitions (killing, theft, adultery, and deceit)
ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid; EDTA
falling ill (esp. of a monk); illness
head, trunk, arms, and legs; the whole body
(arch.) fractional sampling; (arch.) method of quartering; (arch.) quartation; method of lunar calendar formulation
the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow
Four Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, and Kawachi; made obsolete in 757)
four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara)
weather of the four seasons (warmth of spring, heat of summer, cool of autumn, and cold of winter)
plans for one's day, plans for one's year, plans for one's life, and plans for one's family
(the most thrilling relationships for a man are) another man's wife, a maidservant, a mistress, a prostitute, and finally his own wife
the four drug-control laws of Japan
four large domesticated fishes (black carp, grass carp, bighead carp, and silver carp)
Treatise on the Two Entrances and Four Practices
the four examinations (in Chinese medicine: seeing, hearing, asking, touching)
intermediate switch (UK); crossover switch (UK); four-way switch (US)
the four great Japanese grammar texts (Yamada, Matsushita, Hashimoto and Tokieda)
every person has their eccentricities
every person has their eccentricities
harsh words make the going rough; consider your words; (lit.) a round egg can be cut into a square
the Four Freedoms (as defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear)
ideal husband who is not overbearing, is not dependent on his wife, has a stable job and does not spend a lot of money
registration black (in printing)
the four loves (chrysanthemum, lotus, plum, and orchid; as painting subjects)
firstly vision, secondly footwork, thirdly courage, fourthly technique (the most important aspects of kendo)
four-color cards (Chinese playing cards); four-suited chess cards
fourth quarter (of a year)
Four Great Inventions (of China: the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing)
six-three-three-four system of education (six years of elementary school, three years each of junior and senior high school and four years of university)
six-three-three-four system of education (six years of elementary school, three years each of junior and senior high school and four years of university)
B4 paper size (257 mm x 364 mm)
Calamansi (Citrus x microcarpa)
Calamansi (Citrus x microcarpa)
intentional walk; intentional base on balls; IBB
elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words
elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words
elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words
fabulous fours (age); fantastic fours; (lit.) angelic fours
Fourth Investigation Division (of the Japanese police); division responsible for investigating organized crime and the yakuza
Shikoku Chemicals Corporation
Shikoku National Industrial Research Institute
Shikoku National Industrial Research Institute
Shikoku Branch Administrative Inspection Bureau
Shikoku Women's University
Sichuan Agricultural University; SICAU
Shitennōji International Buddhist University
Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Authority; HSBA
Shijonawate Gakuen University
loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora); akashide
Chinese muntjac (species of barking deer, Muntiacus reevesi)
winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus)
four-eyed fish (Anableps spp.)
four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis); chousingha
Eupatorium glehnii (boneset species)