四

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

Hanafuda

the Ono no Michikaze card and three other 20-point cards (scoring combination)

four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear)

four gods said to rule over the four directions

Abbreviation

four-wheeled light vehicle

Baseball; Japanese pitching statistic

bases on balls and pitches striking the batsmen

four-wheeled light vehicle

Buddhism

heaven of the Four Great Kings; one of the six heavens of the desire realm

Derogatory

Four Barbarians; derogative name for various ancient non-Chinese peoples bordering ancient China

Japanese hornbeam (Carpinus japonica)

Mahjong

big four winds; winning hand containing four kongs or pungs of winds

vocal quartet; four-part chorus

Buddhism

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

Calamansi (Citrus x microcarpa)

Buddhism

four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara)

four ordinal directions

しい only; From Guanzi

four cardinal principles of the state (propriety, justice, integrity, sense of shame)

28th day after death

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

four monastic communities (ordained monks, ordained nuns, male novices and female novices)

In Tendai

the four assemblies

quatrain

Sumo

four tassels hung above the ring

Buddhism

satipatthana; mindfulness

finger millet (Eleusine coracana)

Music

tetrad

Mahjong

little four winds; winning hand consisting of three kongs or pungs of winds and a pair of the fourth wind

Music

notation system for the sanshin