Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
enclosure
Parts:
Variants:
four
Kun:
よ.つよっ.つよん
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
47 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 四 【シ】 four, 4
  • 4月 【シガツ】 April, fourth month in the lunar calendar
  • 十四 【ジュウシ】 fourteen, 14
  • 炭素14 【タンソジュウシ】 carbon-14

Kun reading compounds

  • 四 【し】 four, 4
  • 四畳半 【よじょうはん】 four and a half tatami mats, four-and-a-half-mat room, small room esp. for assignations
  • 四つ 【よっつ】 four, 4, four years of age, ten o'clock (in the old time system), burakumin, cross grips
  • 四つ角 【よつかど】 four corners, crossroads, intersecting street, street corner
  • 四つ 【よっつ】 four, 4, four years of age, ten o'clock (in the old time system), burakumin, cross grips
  • 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)
  • 四 【し】 four, 4
  • 40 【よんじゅう】 forty, 40
  • 十四 【じゅうし】 fourteen, 14
  • 軽四 【けいよん】 four-wheeled light vehicle

Readings

Japanese names:
あ、 つ、 よつ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
si4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • cuatro
  • 4

Portuguese

  • quatro

French

  • quatre
4 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
4 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
26 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
18 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1025 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
35 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
188 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
6 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
6 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
4 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
335 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3778 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1928 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2620 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
4 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
4682 Morohashi
3044 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
938 New Nelson (John Haig)
4 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
4 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
114 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
37 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3675 2001 Kanji
3s2.2 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-2 SKIP code
4-5-1 SKIP code
6021.0 Four corner code
1-27-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
56db Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
arrow
Parts:
dart, arrow
Kun:
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N1
1294 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 矢状 【シジョウ】 sagittal
  • 矢状縫合 【シジョウホウゴウ】 sagittal suture
  • 弓矢 【ユミヤ】 bow and arrow, weapon, arms
  • 嚆矢 【コウシ】 whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle, start (e.g. of a movement), beginning, dawn

Kun reading compounds

  • 矢 【や】 arrow, wedge, chock
  • 矢先 【やさき】 arrowhead, target of a flying arrow, brunt (of an attack), the very moment (when), the point (of doing)
  • 弓矢 【ゆみや】 bow and arrow, weapon, arms
  • 洗い矢 【あらいや】 ramrod, cleaning rod

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi3
Korean:
si

Spanish

  • flecha

Portuguese

  • dardo
  • flecha

French

  • fléchette
  • flèche
145 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
981 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1092 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3168 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1335 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1566 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
215 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
213 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
213 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
593 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1393 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2502 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1267 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1733 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1228 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
23929 Morohashi
2009 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3976 New Nelson (John Haig)
1220 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1305 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
110 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2363 2001 Kanji
0a5.19 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-3 SKIP code
4-5-4 SKIP code
8043.0 Four corner code
1-44-80 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
77e2 Unicode hex code