四

in all directions

crawling on all fours; being on all fours; being on one's hands and knees

Because 4 x 6 = 24

around the clock; day and night

24 hours; twenty-four hours

Numeric

four thousand; 4,000

Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru; Intransitive verb

being in dire distress; being hard put to it; being hard pressed (for money)

Buddhism

the four and eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)

fourth-year student

Abbreviation; Common noun; Abbr. of 四年制大学

university or college offering four-year programs

Prefix

the big four ...; the four major ...

four corners

four ordinal directions

Go (game)

ladder

zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects

四手／垂 only

hornbeam (deciduous tree in the birch family)

four and a half tatami mats; four-and-a-half-mat room

small room esp. for assignations

arbor; arbour; bower; summer house; square gazebo

four times (as much); quadruple; fourfold

four-eyed; pattern of four squares

fourth court rank

foursome; group of four people

Historical term

Gang of Four (Maoist political faction)

Hanafuda

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

three and a four (in dice games)

neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity

all sides; frontiers (of a country)

four sides (of a shape)

four characters; four letters

Geometry

quadrilateral; quadrangle; tetragon

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

four-legged; four-footed

(four-legged) animal; beast

four legs; four-legged; quadruped

fourth son