N5 Kanji Course

Teacher

Marshall

N5 Kanji 4: 四

Meaning of kanji 四:

In Japanese, 四 means “four”.

How to read kanji 四:

Kunyomi	よっ、よ、よん
Onyomi	し

How to write kanji 四:

Origin of kanji 四:

Maybe you will wonder why we don’t use four lines to stand for “four”, but it looks bad.
So we use another kanji means “the nose is watering” to stand for “four”.

It’s pretty hard to explain the reason, but our purpose is to remember this kanji, so you can remember this as “My nose is watering for four days”.

Development of kanji 四:

Vocabulary containing kanji 四:

Word	Reading	Meaning
四	し、よん	four (number)
四つ	よっつ	four (counter)
四十	よんじゅう	forty
四百	よんひゃく	four hundred
四千	よんせん	four thousand
四月	しがつ	April

Example Sentences of kanji 四:

正方形せいほうけいには四よっつの辺へんがある。
A square has four sides.

私わたしは四よん十じゅう歳さいです。
I’m forty years old.

四よん百ひゃくドルを貸かしてください。
Please lend me 400 dollars.

この学校がっこうは四千よんせん人にんいます。
This school has 4,000 students.

日に本ほんは四し方ほうを海うみに囲かこまれている。
Japan is bounded by water on every side.

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