the four cardinal directions; north, east, south and west; surroundings; many countries; the whole world; all around; here and there
April; fourth month in the lunar calendar
the (four) limbs; arms and legs
the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana); the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)
Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)
four Taoist gods said to reign over the four directions; four gods said to reign over the four seasons
four (long cylindrical things)
divide into four pieces; one fourth
around the clock; day and night
scattering (in all directions)
four times; four colour process printing (color); CMYK printing
the four great sages (Buddha, Christ, Confucius, Socrates)
one four-of-a-kind and one three-of-a-kind in a dealt hand; three and a four (in dice games)
being in dire distress; being hard put to it; the four and eight kinds of suffering
four corners; four ordinal directions
neighbourhood; neighborhood; all sides; frontiers (of a country); four sides (of a shape)
quarter; a fourth; square (piece of) cloth
to grumble about something (trivial)
four legs; four-legged; quadruped
the four gentlemen (plum, chrysanthemum, orchid, and bamboo)
quadrilateral; quadrangle; tetragon
surroundings; circumference
the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind); the human body; Tao, heaven, earth and king
quadruped walking; walking on four legs
being surrounded by enemies on all sides; being betrayed (forsaken) by everybody
fourth dimension; four dimensions
forty-ninth day after a person's death
quadruped; four-footed animal
the four signs of orthodox Buddhism
rounding (fractions); rounding half up
from season to season; season by season; of each season; in each season
whole neighborhood; whole neighbourhood; surrounding countries
the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
wrestler's ceremonial leg raising and stomping
the four kinds of demons that make trouble for sentient beings
Sichuan (China); Szechuan; Szechwan
the whole world; the seven seas
square; formal; prim; stuffy
zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects; hornbeam (deciduous tree in the birch family)
four balls; base on balls; a walk
the four social classes (samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants); the masses
the four inauspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
to be square; to be angular; to be formal; to be stiff; to be strict
four arithmetic operations; basic arithmetic operations
the 48 basic techniques; every trick in the book; the 48 basic sexual positions
the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
four-of-a-kind and a pair in a dealt hand
torn asunder; disrupted and disorganized
24 divisions of the solar year; 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons
quadrilateral; quadrangle; tetragon
shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); duodecimo
shoulder pain (at about age forty)
four (fundamental) rules of arithmetic
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)
Szechuan cuisine; Sichuan cuisine
Sichuan (China); Szechuan; Szechwan
four posts that used to support the roof over the ring
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
four images; four symbols; four emblems; four phenomena; four phases
looking everywhere; looking in all four directions; neighborhood; vicinity
the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism; the Nine Chinese Classics
six to four ratio; sixty-forty
the Four Books (Confucian texts)
rolling a two and four (with two dice); six
four 20-point cards (scoring combination)
Prayer to the Four Quarters (Japanese imperial New Year's ceremony)
Shikoku region (incl. Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures)
the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
the four kalpa (formation, existence, destruction, nothingness)
Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth
fourth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Jupiter and south-east)
traffic network extending in all directions
four divine beasts; guardian deities of the four cardinal points
Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples); Shikoku pilgrim
Japanese tit (Parus minor); Oriental tit
passage of the seasons; change of the four seasons
yoko-shiho-gatame (judo hold in which the opponent's shoulders and hips are pinned)
style of temple gate featuring four supporting pillars and a gabled roof
alternation of three cold and four warm days
the four great families of the age (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan); varna (each of the four Hindu castes)
the four ways of birth (from a womb, an egg, moisture or spontaneously); catur-yoni
88 temples of Shikoku (holy spots related to Kobo Daishi)
Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples); Shikoku pilgrim
the four beginnings (in Mencius's belief in humanity's innate goodness); the four sprouts
being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another
720ml bottle (of alcohol)
tate-shiho-gatame (judo); vertical four-quarter hold
April Theses; series of directives issued by Lenin after his return from exile
the Ono no Michikaze card and three other 20-point cards (scoring combination)
four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear); four gods said to rule over the four directions
heaven of the Four Great Kings; one of the six heavens of the desire realm
the 64 hexagrams (of the Book of Changes)
four administrative positions (of the ritsuryo system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
Four Barbarians; derogative name for various ancient non-Chinese peoples bordering ancient China
bases on balls and pitches striking the batsmen
vocal quartet; four-part chorus
quadriplegia; tetraplegia
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 ordinal directions; four cardinal principles of the state (propriety, justice, integrity, sense of shame)
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 kinds of birth in the six destinies
four-color theorem (colour) (theorem stating that any map can be colored such that no two adjacent segments have the same color, if only four colors are used)
at age forty, one has no doubts
the four Fujiwara families; Fujiwara clan
satipatthana; mindfulness
four tassels hung above the ring
stall-keeper (esp. at a festival); street vendor; hawker; seller of unreliable merchandise; faker; huckster
four types of mandala (in Shingon)
the four grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday, Emperor Meiji's birthday; 1927-1948)
schools of the upper quartile; highly ranked schools
Tetragonocalamus quadrangularis (type of bamboo); Chimonobambusa quadrangularis
Twenty-Four Histories; authoritative collection of twenty-four Chinese historical books
the common run of men; the average Joe; good-for-nothing (person)
people in the whole world being all brothers; universal brotherhood
in calligraphy, the four important tools of brush, ink stone, ink stick, and paper
four gratitudes (to one's parents, all living beings, one's sovereign and the Three Jewels); four obligations
livery; servant's clothes provided by employers
best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
four-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand)
May Fourth Movement (anti-imperialist student demonstration in Beijing on May 4, 1919)
mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days (ni, shi, mu, ku, etc.)
carbon-14 dating; radiocarbon dating
four sides (boundaries) of a property
64th note; hemidemisemiquaver; semidemisemiquaver
weather of the four seasons (warmth of spring, heat of summer, cool of autumn, and cold of winter)
the 24 seasonal divisions of a year in the old lunar calendar
(arch.) fractional sampling; (arch.) method of quartering; (arch.) quartation; method of lunar calendar formulation
loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora)
falling ill (esp. of a monk); illness
firstly vision, secondly footwork, thirdly courage, fourthly technique (the most important aspects of kendo)
Treatise on the Two Entrances and Four Practices
wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade
(the most thrilling relationships for a man are) another man's wife, a maidservant, a mistress, a prostitute, and finally his own wife
last quarter (of the year)
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
round-off function; rounding
the four loves (chrysanthemum, lotus, plum, and orchid; as painting subjects)
small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (Awaji Island, Shōdoshima, etc.)
every person has their eccentricities
quarterly earnings announcement
euphoria experienced by college students or workplace recruits at the beginning of school or work
harsh words make the going rough; consider your words; (lit.) a round egg can be cut into a square
silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4)
four grave prohibitions (killing, theft, adultery, and deceit)
the four stages of existence: birth, life, death, and limbo
plans for one's day, plans for one's year, plans for one's life, and plans for one's family
four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara)
carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)
varna (each of India's four castes)
the four examinations (in Chinese medicine: seeing, hearing, asking, touching)
sihu (4-stringed Chinese musical instrument played with a bow)
four-corner kanji character stroke classification system
ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid; EDTA
four types of mandala (in Shingon)
Japanese hornbeam (Carpinus japonica)
finger millet (Eleusine coracana)
Chonowski's hornbeam (Carpinus tschonoskii)
loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora); akashide
Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus); milu; elpahure
Aleutian Canada goose (Branta canadensis leucopareia)
winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus)
head, trunk, arms, and legs; the whole body
the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow
the Four Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, and Kawachi); obsolete in 757 when Izumi was established as a separate province from Kawachi
land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%
fourth watch of the night (approx. 1am to 3am)
Matashirō shaku (approx. 30.26 cm)