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Search Terms: *四*
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noun
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land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%(archaism, yojijukugo)
noun
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Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples), Shikoku pilgrim
See also:四国八十八箇所
Other readings:
四国順礼【しこくじゅんれい】
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Shikoku region (incl. Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures)
noun
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88 temples of Shikoku (holy spots related to Kobo Daishi)
noun
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finger millet (Eleusine coracana)(usually kana)
Other readings:
シコクビエ
noun
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Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples), Shikoku pilgrim
See also:四国巡礼
noun
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wrestler's stage name(usually kana, sumo term)
Other readings:
しこな《醜名》
、しこな《しこ名》
Notes:
- ateji (phonetic) reading
noun
1.
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
2.
four monastic communities (ordained monks, ordained nuns, male novices and female novices)
3.
the four assemblies(in Tendai)
Other readings:
四衆【ししゅう】
noun
1.
four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear)
2.
four gods said to rule over the four directions
See also:四神
noun
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great tit (Parus major)(usually kana)
Other readings:
しじゅうがら《四十雀》
、シジュウカラ
、シジュウガラ
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シジュウカラガン
noun
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four grave prohibitions (killing, theft, adultery, and deceit)(Buddhist term)
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四重禁【しじゅうごん】
noun
1.
the 48 basic techniques(yojijukugo, sumo term)
2.
every trick in the book
3.
the 48 basic sexual positions(colloquialism)
expression
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at age forty, one has no doubts(yojijukugo)(from Confucius)
noun
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four types of mandala (in Shingon)(Buddhist term)
noun
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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)
Other readings:
四色定理【よんしょくていり】
noun
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the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism, the Nine Chinese Classics(yojijukugo)
noun
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the four examinations (in Chinese medicine: seeing, hearing, asking, touching)
noun
1.
four gods said to rule over the four directions
2.
(in China) four gods said to rule over the four seasons
noun
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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(yojijukugo)
noun
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the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology(obscure)
noun
1.
the four great families of the age (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)
2.
varna (each of the four Hindu castes)
See also:ヴァルナ
noun
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noun, no-adjective
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quadruped walking, walking on four legs
See also:二足歩行 (にそくほこう)
noun
1.
the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind)(Buddhist term)
2.
the human body
3.
Tao, heaven, earth and king
noun
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the four beginnings (in Mencius's belief in humanity's innate goodness), the four sprouts
noun
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Four Pillar astrology, originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth(yojijukugo)
noun, auxillary suru verb
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traffic network extending in all directions(yojijukugo)
noun
1.
four times(only relevant for ４度 and 四度)
2.
four colour process printing (color), CMYK printing(only relevant for よんど)
Other readings:
４度【よんど】
、４°【しど】
、４°【よんど】
、四度【しど】
、四度【よんど】
noun
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four administrative positions (of the ritsuryo system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
See also:律令制
noun
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four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)(obscure)
See also:四衆
noun
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Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), milu, elpahure(usually kana)
Other readings:
シフゾウ
noun
1.
fractional sampling, method of quartering, quartation(archaism)
2.
method of lunar calendar formulation
noun
1.
neighbourhood, neighborhood, vicinity
2.
all sides, frontiers (of a country)
3.
four sides (of a shape)
noun
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the four signs of orthodox Buddhism(Buddhist term)
noun
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wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade
See also:反台鉋
Other readings:
四方反り鉋【しほうそりかんな】
、四方反りかんな【しほうそりかんな】
、四方反かんな【しほうそりかんな】
noun
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Tetragonocalamus quadrangularis (type of bamboo), Chimonobambusa quadrangularis
noun
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four posts that used to support the roof over the ring(sumo term)
noun
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small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (Awaji Island, Shōdoshima, etc.)
See also:四国八十八箇所
noun
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noun, no-adjective
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being surrounded by enemies on all sides, being betrayed (forsaken) by everybody(yojijukugo)