よん
Meanings
Numeric
1. four
肆 is used in legal documents
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (37 in total)
forty; 40
14; fourteen
400; four hundred
four thousand; 4,000
four (long cylindrical things)
university or college offering four-year programs; the big four ...; the four major ...
four times; four colour process printing (color); CMYK printing
four times (as much); quadruple; fourfold
four generations; fourth generation immigrant; yonsei; the fourth (e.g. George IV)
four characters; four letters
four-wheeled
fourth son
fourth-born daughter
fourth year of elementary school; fourth year elementary school student
four-panel comic strip; yonkoma
semifinalists; final four (in a tournament)
fourth year (college) student; senior
coach and four; four horse coach
4-day weekend
quadrennial; recurring every four years
tetralogy
the four northern islands (held by Russia); south Kuril Islands; northern territories
AAA battery; AAA cell
land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent)
720ml bottle (of alcohol)
humorism (ancient system of medicine); humoralism
four-wheeled light vehicle
four-letter word (esp. in English)
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)
the four top party executives (of the LDP)
ideal husband who is not overbearing, is not dependent on his wife, has a stable job and does not spend a lot of money
tetrasaccharide
registration black (in printing)
Examples (14 in total)
I've climbed Mt. Fuji four times.
This book is divided into four parts.
I paid him four dollars.