し
Meanings
Numeric
1. four
肆 is used in legal documents
The width is enough for four carriages to run side by side.
Pitch accent
し
Used in vocabulary (138 in total)
the four seasons
quadrilateral; square
forty; 40
Examples (57 in total)
I am fifty-four years old.
I came fourth in the footrace.
I made fourth dan!
He is the fourth president of the company.
I've climbed Mt. Fuji four times.
A jueju is a four-line Chinese poem.
I've been walking for over four hours.
If you multiply three by four, you get twelve.
Four dolls are lined up on the shelf.
From here, it's about four kilometers left.
Four to three. I win.
The ceiling is approximately four meters high.
You get off at Yotsuya Station.
This book is divided into four parts.
Only four times a year? That's insane!
Is the next four months the decisive period?
The cat had four kittens.
She has served four terms as a legislator.
I paid him four dollars.
Is it about four meters in diameter?
Four weeks have passed since I started work.
I'll give you ticket number four.
It really hurts to have the output drop by as much as forty percent.
Mars, the red planet, is the fourth planet.
The four animals lined up side by side in a row.
One kan weighs nearly four kilograms.
Spiders have four pairs of legs.
Our cleanup hitter was intentionally walked.
The plays of Shakespeare fall into four periods.
Her cat had another four kittens.
The man in the hat slowly took four steps back.
It's only four minutes from here by train.
I took the elevator to the fourth floor.
Judging from all this, it's been about four hours since death.
I drained my fourth glass and finally took a breather.
The results of the fourth survey were announced.
It's a small restaurant with four tables.
This set of colored pencils comes in twenty-four colors.
The wrestler moved up four places in the rankings.
Sure enough, my seat is in the middle of the fourth row.
I go to the movies three or four times a month.
My sister has been taking piano lessons since she was four.
On the field, preparations for the fourth round are about to be finished.
Saying that, he made me take care of as many as four cats.
In terms of numbers it's four to three, in our favor.
There were also about four kinds of those rice packs.
This family has practiced medicine for four generations.
In terms of area, it's the fourth-smallest prefecture in Japan.
It is about four stops south by subway.
With shaking like that, the seismic intensity is three or four at most.
The width is enough for four carriages to run side by side.
I had intended to go as far as Shijō, but I gave up and turned back.
The correct answer is twelve on each side, for a total of twenty-four.
Tom wants to graduate from college before he turns 24 years old.
And I've already heard this joke about four times.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.