the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana); the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)
(complaining about) this and that; one thing or another
four-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand)
forty-ninth day after a person's death
the four cardinal directions; north, east, south and west; surroundings; many countries; the whole world; square
four (long cylindrical things)
four Taoist gods said to reign over the four directions; four gods said to reign over the four seasons
around the clock; day and night
dividing into four; quartering
the four great sages (Buddha, Christ, Confucius, Socrates)
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
four legs; four-legged; quadruped
quadrilateral; quadrangle; tetragon
quadrilateral; quadrangle; tetragon
fourth dimension; four dimensions; 4D
the four gentlemen (plum, chrysanthemum, orchid, and bamboo)
the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind); the human body; Tao, heaven, earth and king
Four Perils (malevolent beings)
the four kinds of demons that make trouble for sentient beings
the four signs of orthodox Buddhism
the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
to be square; to be angular; to be formal; to be stiff; to be strict
arbitrariness; self-will; whim
base on balls; walk; pass
four-of-a-kind and a pair in a dealt hand
the four social classes (of Edo-period Japan; samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants)
four images; four symbols; four emblems; four phenomena; four phases
shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); duodecimo
24 solar stems (terms used to denote the changing of the seasons); 24 divisions of the Chinese solar year
four strings; four-stringed instrument; biwa
the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching
four (fundamental) rules of arithmetic
six to four ratio; sixty-forty
the Four Books (Confucian texts)
the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
rolling a two and four (with two dice); six
the four kalpa (formation, existence, destruction, nothingness)
(four) cardinal humors; cardinal humours
traffic network extending in all directions
the four ways of birth (from a womb, an egg, moisture or spontaneously); catur-yoni
Shijō school of Japanese painting (late Edo period)
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)
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)
style of temple gate featuring four supporting pillars and a gabled roof
four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear); four gods said to rule over the four directions
the four beginnings (in Mencius's belief in humanity's innate goodness); the four sprouts
the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
720ml bottle (of alcohol)
Four Barbarians (non-Chinese peoples bordering ancient China)
heaven of the Four Great Kings; one of the six heavens of the desire realm
bases on balls and pitches striking the batsmen
carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)
four administrative positions (of the ritsuryō system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
four-color problem; four-color map problem
vocal quartet; four-part chorus
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
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 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
liquor shop; bar; barroom
April 16 incident (arrests of communists and members of other anti-government groups; 1929)
four-color theorem; four-color map theorem
schools of the upper quartile; highly ranked schools
four gratitudes (to one's parents, all living beings, one's sovereign and the Three Jewels); four obligations
quartet; quartette; piece in four parts or voices
Tetragonocalamus quadrangularis (type of bamboo); Chimonobambusa quadrangularis
Twenty-Four Histories; authoritative collection of twenty-four Chinese historical books
four sides (boundaries) of a property
si he yuan (traditional Chinese residential building)
the four stages of existence: birth, life, death, and limbo
silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4)
silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4)
varna (each of India's four castes)
sihu (4-stringed Chinese musical instrument played with a bow)
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
four types of mandala (in Shingon)
ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid; EDTA
four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara)
weather of the four seasons (warmth of spring, heat of summer, cool of autumn, and cold of winter)
plans for one's day, plans for one's year, plans for one's life, and plans for one's family
the four loves (chrysanthemum, lotus, plum, and orchid; as painting subjects)
firstly vision, secondly footwork, thirdly courage, fourthly technique (the most important aspects of kendo)
elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words
Shikoku Gakuin University
Honshi Kaikyō Bus Company
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)
head, trunk, arms, and legs; the whole body
Four Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, and Kawachi; made obsolete in 757)