四よん
Meanings
Numeric
1. four
肆 is used in legal documents
The width is enough for four carriages to run side by side.
Kanji used
four
Pitch accent
よ
ん
Top 1100
Used in vocabulary (56 in total)
four (long cylindrical things)
400; four hundred
university or college offering four-year programs; the big four ...; the four major ...
four thousand; 4,000
four times; four-colour process printing; CMYK printing
24th day of the month; 24 days
four times (as much); quadruple; fourfold
four generations; fourth generation immigrant; yonsei; the fourth (e.g. George IV)
four legs; four-legged; quadruped
four characters; four letters
four-wheeled
fourth-born daughter
four-panel comic strip; yonkoma
fourth year of elementary school; fourth year elementary school student
semifinalists; final four (in a tournament)
coach and four; four horse coach
fourth year (college) student; senior
the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching
the four northern islands (held by Russia); south Kuril Islands; northern territories
AAA battery; AAA cell
(four) cardinal humors; cardinal humours
land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent)
quadrennial; recurring every four years; lasting four years
720ml bottle (of alcohol)
quadrennial; recurring every four years; lasting four years
four-letter word (esp. in English)
four-wheeled light vehicle
Fourth Investigation Division (of the Japanese police); division responsible for investigating organized crime and the yakuza
four-color problem; four-color map problem
four-fold hardship; quadruple whammy
four-color theorem; four-color map theorem
quadrennial; recurring every four years; lasting four years
quadrennial; recurring every four years; lasting four years
the four top party executives (of the LDP)
four-panel comic strip; yonkoma
quadrennial; recurring every four years; lasting four years
quadrennial; recurring every four years; lasting four years
April 16 incident (arrests of communists and members of other anti-government groups; 1929)
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)
fabulous fours (age); fantastic fours; (lit.) angelic fours
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)
Yondenko Corporation
tetrasaccharide
Examples (47 in total)
I am fifty-four years old.
I came fourth in the footrace.
I made fourth dan!