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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, auxillary suru verb
periphery, circumference

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
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

noun
Aleutian Canada goose (Branta canadensis leucopareia)(usually kana)
See also:カナダ雁
Other readings:
シジュウカラガン

noun
four grave prohibitions (killing, theft, adultery, and deceit)(Buddhist term)
Other readings:
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
at age forty, one has no doubts(yojijukugo)(from Confucius)

noun
varna (each of India's four castes)(obscure)
See also:ヴァルナ

noun
the Four Books (Confucian texts)

noun
four images, four symbols, four emblems, four phenomena, four phases

noun
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
the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism, the Nine Chinese Classics(yojijukugo)

noun
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
four divine beasts, guardian deities of the four cardinal points

noun
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
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
the four great sages (Buddha, Christ, Confucius, Socrates)

noun
the Big Dipper (asterism), the Plough, the Plow(archaism, astronomy term)
See also:北斗七星

noun
four (fundamental) rules of arithmetic

noun
four legs, four-legged, quadruped

noun
head, trunk, arms, and legs, the whole body(archaism)

noun
The Four Noble Truths(Buddhist term)
See also:苦集滅道

noun
1.
the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind)(Buddhist term)
2.
the human body
3.
Tao, heaven, earth and king

noun
the four grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday, Emperor Meiji's birthday; 1927-1948)
See also:紀元節,  四方拝,  天長節,  明治節

noun
the four beginnings (in Mencius's belief in humanity's innate goodness), the four sprouts

noun
Four Pillar astrology, originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth(yojijukugo)

noun
ladder (in go)(usually kana)
Other readings:
しちょう《征》
シチョウ

noun, auxillary suru verb
traffic network extending in all directions(yojijukugo)

noun
loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora)(obscure)
See also:赤四手

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
four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara)(Buddhist term)

noun
four administrative positions (of the ritsuryo system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
See also:律令制

noun
1.
rolling a two and four (with two dice)
2.
six(humerous)

noun
four-horse carriage
Other readings:
駟馬【しめ】
四馬【しば】
四馬【しめ】

noun
quarter note, crotchet(music term)
Other readings:
四分音符【しぶんおんぷ】

noun
four tassels hung above the ring(sumo term)

noun
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)(obscure)
See also:四衆

noun
Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), milu, elpahure(usually kana)
Other readings:
シフゾウ

noun, auxillary suru verb
divide into four pieces, one fourth

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
quadrilateral, quadrangle, tetragon(mathematics)

noun
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
Tetragonocalamus quadrangularis (type of bamboo), Chimonobambusa quadrangularis

noun
Prayer to the Four Quarters (Japanese imperial New Year's ceremony)

noun
four posts that used to support the roof over the ring(sumo term)

noun
the four kinds of demons that make trouble for sentient beings(Buddhist term)
See also:煩悩魔,  陰魔,  死魔,  天魔

noun
small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (Awaji Island, Shōdoshima, etc.)

noun
four types of mandala (in Shingon)(abbreviation, Buddhist term)

noun
the four social classes (samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants), the masses

noun, no-adjective
being surrounded by enemies on all sides, being betrayed (forsaken) by everybody(yojijukugo)

noun
little four winds, winning hand consisting of three kongs or pungs of winds and a pair of the fourth wind(mahjong term)
Other readings:
小四喜【しょうスーシー】

noun
fourth year of elementary school, fourth year elementary school student(abbreviation)(abbr. of 小学校4年(生))
Other readings:
小四【しょうよん】

noun
whole neighborhood, whole neighbourhood, surrounding countries

noun
the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology(obscure)
See also:麒麟,  鳳凰,  霊亀,  応竜

noun
fourth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Jupiter and south-east)
See also:九星

noun
shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm), duodecimo
Other readings:
四六版【しろくばん】
4/6判【しろくばん】

noun
four concealed triplets (yakuman), four concealed three-of-a-kinds(mahjong term)

noun
winning hand consisting of four kongs and a pair(mahjong term)

noun
wind tiles(mahjong term)
Other readings:
四風牌【スーふうはい】
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