the four cardinal directions; north, east, south and west; surroundings; many countries; the whole world; all around; here and there
the (four) limbs; arms and legs
April; fourth month in the lunar calendar
the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana); the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)
four (long cylindrical things)
four Taoist gods said to reign over the four directions; four gods said to reign over the four seasons
Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)
all directions; every direction; all sides; all quarters; everywhere
around the clock; day and night
scattering (in all directions)
dividing into four; quartering
the four great sages (Buddha, Christ, Confucius, Socrates)
being in dire distress; being hard put to it; being hard pressed (for money); the four and eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)
four corners; four ordinal directions
one four-of-a-kind and one three-of-a-kind in a dealt hand; three and a four (in dice games)
neighbourhood; neighborhood; all sides; frontiers (of a country); four sides (of a shape)
quarter; a fourth; square (piece of) cloth
to grumble about something (trivial)
four legs; four-legged; quadruped
quadrilateral; quadrangle; tetragon
quadruped walking; walking on four legs
the four gentlemen (plum, chrysanthemum, orchid, and bamboo)
fourth dimension; four dimensions; 4D
surroundings; circumference
the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind); the human body; Tao, heaven, earth and king
being surrounded by enemies on all sides; being betrayed (forsaken) by everybody
quadruped; four-footed animal
forty-ninth day after a person's death
Four Perils (malevolent beings)
the four kinds of demons that make trouble for sentient beings
(complaining about) this and that; one thing or another
rounding (off; a number); rounding half away from zero; rounding off (views); converging to a common opinion
the four signs of orthodox Buddhism
from season to season; season by season; of each season; in each season
wrestler's ceremonial leg raising and stomping
whole neighborhood; whole neighbourhood; surrounding countries
the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
square; formal; prim; stuffy
Sichuan (China); Szechuan; Szechwan
the whole world; the seven seas
zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects; hornbeam (deciduous tree in the birch family)
four arithmetic operations; basic arithmetic operations
base on balls; walk; pass
to be square; to be angular; to be formal; to be stiff; to be strict
the 48 basic techniques; every trick in the book; the 48 basic sexual positions
love quadrangle; four-way relationship
four-of-a-kind and a pair in a dealt hand
the four social classes (of Edo-period Japan; samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants)
the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
torn asunder; disrupted and disorganized
four images; four symbols; four emblems; four phenomena; four phases
quadruple time; four-four time; common time; the four instruments in the accompanying orchestra in noh, etc. (flute, floor drum, small hand drum, large hand drum)
24 solar stems (terms used to denote the changing of the seasons); 24 divisions of the Chinese solar year
quadrilateral; quadrangle; tetragon
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
four (fundamental) rules of arithmetic
shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); duodecimo
shoulder pain occurring in one's 40s
Szechuan cuisine; Sichuan cuisine
the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism; the Nine Chinese Classics
the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching
four posts that used to support the roof over the ring
Sichuan (China); Szechuan; Szechwan
four-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand)
looking everywhere; looking in all four directions; neighborhood; vicinity
six to four ratio; sixty-forty
the Four Books (Confucian texts)
four strings; four-stringed instrument; biwa
equality for the four classes (early Meiji-period slogan)
four 20-point cards (scoring combination)
Shikoku region (incl. Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures)
Prayer to the Four Quarters (Japanese imperial New Year's ceremony)
rolling a two and four (with two dice); six
Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth
the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
the four kalpa (formation, existence, destruction, nothingness)
(four) cardinal humors; cardinal humours
fourth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Jupiter and south-east)
yoko-shiho-gatame (judo hold in which the opponent's shoulders and hips are pinned)
traffic network extending in all directions
four divine beasts; guardian deities of the four cardinal points
Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples); Shikoku pilgrim
passage of the seasons; change of the four seasons
Japanese tit (Parus minor); Oriental tit
the four ways of birth (from a womb, an egg, moisture or spontaneously); catur-yoni
alternation of three cold and four warm days (usu. in late winter and early spring)
Shijō school of Japanese painting (late Edo period)
large area; (lit.) four ri square (approx. 16 sq km); Edo
style of temple gate featuring four supporting pillars and a gabled roof
the four Hindu castes; the four great families of the Heian period (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)
first quarter (of the year)
88 temples of Shikoku (holy spots related to Kobo Daishi)
Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples); Shikoku pilgrim
the four beginnings (in Mencius's belief in humanity's innate goodness); the four sprouts
four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear); four gods said to rule over the four directions
720ml bottle (of alcohol)
tate-shiho-gatame (judo); vertical four-quarter hold
April Theses; series of directives issued by Lenin after his return from exile
being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another
the Ono no Michikaze card and three other 20-point cards (scoring combination)
humorism (ancient system of medicine); humoralism; humoral theory
heaven of the Four Great Kings; one of the six heavens of the desire realm
Four Barbarians (non-Chinese peoples bordering ancient China)
bases on balls and pitches striking the batsmen
four-color problem; four-color map problem
carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)
four administrative positions (of the ritsuryō system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
quadriplegia; tetraplegia
May Fourth Movement (anti-imperialist student demonstration in Beijing on May 4, 1919)
four essential elements of existence (birth, ageing, illness and death); four-phase; quadri-phase
at age forty, one has no doubts
vocal quartet; four-part chorus
April 16 incident (arrests of communists and members of other anti-government groups; 1929)
four kinds of birth in the six destinies
Shimonoseki campaign (1863-1864); Shimonoseki bombardment
fourth quarter (of the year)
people in the whole world being all brothers; universal brotherhood
four tassels hung above the ring
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 ordinal directions; four cardinal principles of the state (propriety, justice, integrity, sense of shame)
Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus); milu; elpahure
third quarter (of the year)
Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature (Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, Water Margin, and The Plum in the Golden Vase)
schools of the upper quartile; highly ranked schools
quartet; quartette; piece in four parts or voices
four-color theorem; four-color map theorem
the four Fujiwara families; Fujiwara clan
second quarter (of the year)
satipatthana; mindfulness
four gratitudes (to one's parents, all living beings, one's sovereign and the Three Jewels); four obligations
stallkeeper (at a festival, fair, etc.); street vendor; street performer; peddler; hawker; huckster
four types of mandala (in Shingon)
Genshi Shiroku (book of sayings by Satō Issai)
the four grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday, Emperor Meiji's birthday; 1927-1948)
Tetragonocalamus quadrangularis (type of bamboo); Chimonobambusa quadrangularis
si he yuan (traditional Chinese residential building)
The Hyakujushi Bank; 114 Bank
Twenty-Four Histories; authoritative collection of twenty-four Chinese historical books
Siku Quanshu (collection of books from the Qing dynasty); Complete Library in Four Sections
the common run of men; the average Joe; good-for-nothing (person)
the four tools of writing (brush, ink, inkstone and paper)
best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
servant's clothes provided by an employer; livery
without complaining (about this and that); without arguing; without grumbling; with good grace
nishimuku samurai (mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days)
carbon-14 dating; radiocarbon dating
four sides (boundaries) of a property
star magnolia (Magnolia stellata)
64th note; hemidemisemiquaver; semidemisemiquaver
weather of the four seasons (warmth of spring, heat of summer, cool of autumn, and cold of winter)
Shikoku Women's University
the 24 seasonal divisions of a year in the old lunar calendar
(arch.) fractional sampling; (arch.) method of quartering; (arch.) quartation; method of lunar calendar formulation
loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora)
falling ill (esp. of a monk); illness
firstly vision, secondly footwork, thirdly courage, fourthly technique (the most important aspects of kendo)
Treatise on the Two Entrances and Four Practices
Shikoku Gakuin University
wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade
Sichuan Agricultural University; SICAU
Shitennōji International Buddhist University
Shijonawate Gakuen University
(the most thrilling relationships for a man are) another man's wife, a maidservant, a mistress, a prostitute, and finally his own wife
last quarter (of the year)
round-off function; rounding
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
intentional walk; intentional base on balls; IBB
Shikoku Branch Administrative Inspection Bureau
Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Authority; HSBA
the four loves (chrysanthemum, lotus, plum, and orchid; as painting subjects)
elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words
Shikoku Chemicals Corporation
small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (Awaji Island, Shōdoshima, etc.)
Shikoku National Industrial Research Institute
Shikoku National Industrial Research Institute
every person has their eccentricities
quarterly earnings announcement
silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4)
harsh words make the going rough; consider your words; (lit.) a round egg can be cut into a square
four grave prohibitions (killing, theft, adultery, and deceit)
euphoria experienced by college students or workplace recruits at the beginning of school or work
the four stages of existence: birth, life, death, and limbo
plans for one's day, plans for one's year, plans for one's life, and plans for one's family
elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words
four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara)
varna (each of India's four castes)
the four examinations (in Chinese medicine: seeing, hearing, asking, touching)
sihu (4-stringed Chinese musical instrument played with a bow)
four-corner kanji character stroke classification system
Calamansi (Citrus x microcarpa)
Calamansi (Citrus x microcarpa)
ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid; EDTA
four types of mandala (in Shingon)
Japanese hornbeam (Carpinus japonica)
finger millet (Eleusine coracana)
Chonowski's hornbeam (Carpinus tschonoskii)
loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora); akashide
Aleutian Canada goose (Branta canadensis leucopareia)
winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus)
head, trunk, arms, and legs; the whole body
the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow
Four Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, and Kawachi; made obsolete in 757)
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)
Matashirō shaku (approx. 30.26 cm)