Meanings
Numeric
1. four
肆 is used in legal documents
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (119 in total)
the four seasons
quadrilateral; square
forty; 40
the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana); the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)
the four cardinal directions; north, east, south and west; surroundings; many countries; the whole world; square
four-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand)
square; rectangular
to grumble about something (trivial)
forty-ninth day after a person's death
the four seasons
instrumental quartet
amateur; novice; layman
14; fourteen
four (long cylindrical things)
four Taoist gods said to reign over the four directions; four gods said to reign over the four seasons
four thousand; 4,000
divide into four pieces; one fourth
four times
around the clock; day and night
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)
fourth court rank
neighbourhood; neighborhood; all sides; frontiers (of a country); four sides (of a shape)
quarter; a fourth; square (piece of) cloth
the four gentlemen (plum, chrysanthemum, orchid, and bamboo)
quadrilateral; quadrangle; tetragon
quadrilateral; quadrangle; tetragon
four legs; four-legged; quadruped
the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind); the human body; Tao, heaven, earth and king
four sides; all sides
fourth dimension; four dimensions
fourfold
quadrangular pyramid
quarter of a century
the four signs of orthodox Buddhism
the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
the four kinds of demons that make trouble for sentient beings
to be square; to be angular; to be formal; to be stiff; to be strict
periphery; circumference
quarter (of a year)
arbitrariness; self-will; whim
four balls; base on balls; a walk
the four social classes (samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants); the masses
bookstore; bookshop
the four inauspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
quadrangular prism
four-of-a-kind and a pair in a dealt hand
shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); duodecimo
24 divisions of the solar year; 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons
quadriceps muscle
four (fundamental) rules of arithmetic
a fourth; quarter
four images; four symbols; four emblems; four phenomena; four phases
six to four ratio; sixty-forty
the Four Books (Confucian texts)
rolling a two and four (with two dice); six
the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
tetralogy
quarter note; crotchet
the four kalpa (formation, existence, destruction, nothingness)
traffic network extending in all directions
style of temple gate featuring four supporting pillars and a gabled roof
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)
Quaternary period
the four ways of birth (from a womb, an egg, moisture or spontaneously); catur-yoni
the four beginnings (in Mencius's belief in humanity's innate goodness); the four sprouts
every type of disease
four-part harmony
four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear); four gods said to rule over the four directions
720ml bottle (of alcohol)
the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
heaven of the Four Great Kings; one of the six heavens of the desire realm
the 64 hexagrams (of the Book of Changes)
Four Barbarians; derogative name for various ancient non-Chinese peoples bordering ancient China
four administrative positions (of the ritsuryo system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
bases on balls and pitches striking the batsmen
vocal quartet; four-part chorus
May Fourth Movement (anti-imperialist student demonstration in Beijing on May 4, 1919)
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 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-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)
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
liquor shop; bar; barroom
four sides (boundaries) of a property
fourth tray (of food)
four gratitudes (to one's parents, all living beings, one's sovereign and the Three Jewels); four obligations
four velocity
store; market storehouse
the four stages of existence: birth, life, death, and limbo
carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)
silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4)
silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4)
varna (each of India's four castes)
sihu (4-stringed Chinese musical instrument played with a bow)
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
tetraploid
four types of mandala (in Shingon)
fourth wall (in fiction)
ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid; EDTA
tetradynamous stamen
four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara)
weather of the four seasons (warmth of spring, heat of summer, cool of autumn, and cold of winter)
plans for one's day, plans for one's year, plans for one's life, and plans for one's family
titanium tetrachloride
quaternion
the four loves (chrysanthemum, lotus, plum, and orchid; as painting subjects)
firstly vision, secondly footwork, thirdly courage, fourthly technique (the most important aspects of kendo)
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)
head, trunk, arms, and legs; the whole body
the Four Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, and Kawachi); obsolete in 757 when Izumi was established as a separate province from Kawachi
Shijō Station
Shikawa Dam
Examples (14 in total)
I've climbed Mt. Fuji four times.
This book is divided into four parts.
I paid him four dollars.