Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N5

47 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: four

Kunyomi: よ.つ よっ.つ よん

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: くにがまえ

Meaning: enclosure

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

月(しがつ)   April

角(しかく)   square

国(しこく)   Shikoku

季(しき)   four seasons

時(よじ)   4 o'clock

つ角(よつかど)   crossroads

つ(よっつ)   4 (objects)

日(よっか)   4 days, 4th of the month

回(よんかい)   4 times

Onyomi Examples

four, 4

4月 シガツ April, fourth month in the lunar calendar

ジュウシ 14, fourteen

炭素14 タンソジュウシ carbon-14

Kunyomi Examples

four, 4

畳半 よじょうはん four and a half tatami mats, four-and-a-half-mat room, small room esp. for assignations

よっつ four, 4, four years of age, ten o'clock (in the old time system), burakumin, cross grips

つ角 よつかど four corners, crossroads, intersecting street, street corner

よっつ four, 4, four years of age, ten o'clock (in the old time system), burakumin, cross grips

つの自由 よっつのじゆう the Four Freedoms (as defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear)

four, 4

40 よんじゅう forty, 40

じゅうし 14, fourteen

けいよん four-wheeled light vehicle