よん
Meanings
Numeric
1. four
肆 is used in legal documents
Kanji used
four
Pitch accent
Top 1400
Used in vocabulary (40 in total)
400; four hundred
four (long cylindrical things)
university or college offering four-year programs; the big four ...; the four major ...
four thousand; 4,000
four times; four colour process printing (color); CMYK printing
four times (as much); quadruple; fourfold
four characters; four letters
four-wheeled
four generations; fourth generation immigrant; yonsei; the fourth (e.g. George IV)
fourth-born daughter
fourth year of elementary school; fourth year elementary school student
four-panel comic strip; yonkoma
semifinalists; final four (in a tournament)
coach and four; four horse coach
fourth year (college) student; senior
the four northern islands (held by Russia); south Kuril Islands; northern territories
AAA battery; AAA cell
land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent)
quadrennial; recurring every four years
quadrennial; recurring every four years
720ml bottle (of alcohol)
humorism (ancient system of medicine); humoralism
four-wheeled light vehicle
four-letter word (esp. in English)
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)
quadrennial; recurring every four years
the four top party executives (of the LDP)
ideal husband who is not overbearing, is not dependent on his wife, has a stable job and does not spend a lot of money
registration black (in printing)
tetrasaccharide
Examples (14 in total)
I've climbed Mt. Fuji four times.
This book is divided into four parts.
I paid him four dollars.