| 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) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
47 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
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
- Korean:
- sa
Spanish
- cuatro
- 4
Portuguese
- quatro
French
- quatre
| 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 |
villain, evil, bad luck, disaster
- On:
- キョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1673 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 凶 【キョウ】 bad luck, bad fortune, evil, wickedness
- 凶悪 【キョウアク】 atrocious, heinous, fiendish, brutal, vicious
- 元凶 【ゲンキョウ】 ringleader, main culprit, main cause, source
- 大凶 【ダイキョウ】 terrible luck, very bad luck
Readings
- Korean:
- hyung
Spanish
- mal
- maldad
- desastre
- calamidad
Portuguese
- vilão
- mau
- sorte ruim
- desastre
French
- vaurien
- mauvais
- malchance
- désastre
| 1159 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1725 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 663 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1337 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1085 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 173 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1280 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1354 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1812 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 172 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3679 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1877 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2557 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1503 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 1803 | Morohashi |
| 2961 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 442 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1490 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1603 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1022 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1275 | 2001 Kanji |
| 0a4.19 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 3-2-2 | SKIP code |
| 2277.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-22-07 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 51f6 | Unicode hex code |