よんだい
Meanings
Noun
Abbreviation
1. university or college offering four-year programs
abbr. of 四年制大学
Prefix
2. the big four ...; the four major ...
Pitch accent
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Composed of
four
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
Used in vocabulary (5 in total)
the four classical chemical elements (fire, earth, air and water)
the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)
the four most important tournaments in a particular sport; grand slam tournaments; majors
the four major pollution-caused illnesses (Minamata disease, Niigata Minamata disease, Yokkaichi asthma, Itai-itai disease); four big pollution diseases of Japan
the four great Japanese grammar texts (Yamada, Matsushita, Hashimoto and Tokieda)