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 (also 4 and 6)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
crossing, crossroad, street corners, (kokuji)
Kun:
つじ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
1614 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

Kun reading compounds

  • 辻 【つじ】 crossroads, crossing, intersection, street corner, street
  • 旋風 【せんぷう】 whirlwind, sensation, commotion, hullabaloo
  • 辻辻 【つじつじ】 every street corner, every crossing
  • 四辻 【よつつじ】 crossroads, intersection, crossway, carrefour

Readings

Korean:
sib

Spanish

  • cruce
  • cruce de carreteras

Portuguese

French

  • carrefour
  • croisement
  • coins de rues
  • (kokuji)
1474 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4662 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1881 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
320 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3958 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2750 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
285 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38711X Morohashi
3192 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6012 New Nelson (John Haig)
279 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
297 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2q2.2 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-2 SKIP code
3-4-2 SKIP code
3430.0 Four corner code
1-36-52 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8fbb Unicode hex code