四

four

fourteen

four

base on balls

quarter (of a year)

the four cardinal directions

around-the-clock system

the four seasons

64th note

four (long cylindrical things)

bases on balls and pitches striking the batsmen

four corners

square

instrumental quartet

automobile

four people

Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)

four and a half tatami mats

the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana)

square

Sichuan (China)

quadrilateral

cutting into four

wrestling in which both wrestlers grasp the other's belt with both hands

being in dire distress

hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the left hand and an over-arm grip with the right

forty-ninth day after a person's death

the (four) limbs

hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the right hand and an overarm grip with the left

grappling firmly

four-panel comic strip

scoring combination of a 4 and a 1 in oicho-kabu

one four-of-a-kind and one three-of-a-kind in a dealt hand

rolling a two and four (with two dice)

(complaining about) this and that

university or college offering four-year programs

four years

four months

April Theses

fundamental interactions

the four social classes (of Edo-period Japan; samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants)

four-of-a-kind and a pair in a dealt hand

four and six (minutes, etc.)

four generations

dividing into four

four-eyed

four-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand)

head, trunk, arms, and legs

fourth-born daughter

quadruplets

four essential elements of existence (birth, ageing, illness and death)

three or four days

the four seasons

quarter

weather of the four seasons (warmth of spring, heat of summer, cool of autumn, and cold of winter)

four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara)

Yokkaichi asthma

28th day after death

Chūgoku and Shikoku

four-on-the-floor

without complaining (about this and that)

to grumble about something (trivial)

four sides

fourth

plans for one's day, plans for one's year, plans for one's life, and plans for one's family

the whole world

fourth court rank

the four stages of existence: birth, life, death, and limbo

fourth son

quadrant

six to four ratio

the Four Books (Confucian texts)

a fourth

to come to grapples with

fourfold

elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words

foursome

fractional sampling

tetralogy

four legs

four-legged

shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm)

the four most important tournaments in a particular sport

loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora)

four-legged

the 24 seasonal divisions of a year in the old lunar calendar

neighbourhood

the 48 basic techniques

four tones (of Chinese)

quartile

four Taoist gods said to reign over the four directions

si he yuan (traditional Chinese residential building)

four 20-point cards (scoring combination)

cross-grips (situation in which each rikishi has an underarm grip on the other)

4D pocket

fourth dimension

in all directions

the four ways of birth (from a womb, an egg, moisture or spontaneously)

small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (Awaji Island, Shōdoshima, etc.)

four corners

land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent)

land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%

the Four Freedoms (as defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear)

four-leaf clover

plant having four leaves on one stalk

fourth-year student

Shikoku region (incl. Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures)

the four top party executives (of the LDP)

Shikoku University

forty percent

fourth dan (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)

Twenty-Four Histories

quatrain

many

notation system for the sanshin

periphery

falling ill (esp. of a monk)

four days a week

Shijō school of Japanese painting (late Edo period)

the four great Japanese grammar texts (Yamada, Matsushita, Hashimoto and Tokieda)

quaternion

The 47 Ronin

repeatedly

wrestler's favourite (favorite) grip on the belt

Tetragonocalamus quadrangularis (type of bamboo)

tetrahedron

age forty

fourth year (college) student

four kinds

the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt; as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

four images

four characters

four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)

Four Great Inventions (of China: the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing)

the four northern islands (held by Russia)

Yokkaichi University

the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)

tetramer

Shikoku Cable Line

six-three-three-four system of education (six years of elementary school, three years each of junior and senior high school and four years of university)

the world

Yondenko Corporation

Fourth World

Shikoku Electrical Power

four times (as much)

April 16 incident (arrests of communists and members of other anti-government groups; 1929)

Sichuan (China)

May Fourth Movement (anti-imperialist student demonstration in Beijing on May 4, 1919)

the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism

last quarter (of the year)