four / 4

to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned

to tear

personal / private / selfish

to feed (a person or animal)

Slovakia / Slovak / abbr. for 斯洛伐克

(phonetic) / this

surname Si

to take charge of / to manage / department (under a ministry)

to think / to consider

to seem / to appear / to resemble / similar / -like / pseudo- / (more) than

Buddhist temple / mosque / government office (old)

silk / thread / trace / (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips / CL: 條｜条 / classifier: a thread (of cloud, smoke etc), a bit, an iota, a hint (of sth) etc

four (banker's anti-fraud numeral) / unrestrained / wanton / (literary) shop

to wrap / kerchief / handkerchief / headscarf / pascal (SI unit)

old variant of 似

(literary) to wait for

succession (to a title) / to inherit / continuing (a tradition) / posterity

6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake / ancient Chinese compass point: 150°

river in Shandong

nasal mucus

hiss / neigh / Ss! (sound of air sucked between the teeth, indicating hesitation or thinking over)

music notation in which the notes Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La and Si are represented by numerals 1 to 7

team of 4 horses

surname Si

wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)

newton (SI unit of force)

(bound form) together; each other / (bound form) male servant / (bound form) dude; so-and-so (used in 那廝｜那厮 and 這廝｜这厮)

to sacrifice / to offer libation to

to watch / to wait / to examine / to spy

to raise / to rear / to feed

Si River in Shandong

strontium (chemistry)

felicity / blessing

"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅｜红, 綠｜绿, 累 etc / also pr. [mi4]

talented / urgent

spoon / ladle

Legalist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) founded by Han Fei 韓非｜韩非 and Li Si 李斯, which influenced Shang Yang 商鞅, whose reforms strengthened the Qin state 秦國｜秦国, eventually enabling it to conquer rival states and unify China under the Qin dynasty 秦朝

peek

Si county in Suzhou 宿州, Anhui

river bank

stream which returns after branching

variant of 俟

plow / plowshare

square bamboo container for food or clothing

(onom.) to hiss / to whistle / to whiz / to fizz

snail

animal cited in ancient texts, resembling a buffalo (some say rhinoceros or female rhinoceros)

fine linen

drain dry / to exhaust

screen

old variant of 私

used in 茅廁｜茅厕

heron

the end / to finish

numeral 4 in Suzhou numeral system 蘇州碼子｜苏州码子

variant of 廝｜厮

variant of 祀

Li Si, name for an unspecified person, second of a series of three: 張三｜张三, 李四, 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry

old variant of 飼｜饲

old variant of 四

Li Si (c. 280-208 BC), Legalist philosopher, calligrapher and prime minister of Qin kingdom and Qin dynasty from 246 to 208 BC

(used in place names)

amphibious animal with one horn

farad, SI unit of electrical capacitance (loanword)

variant of 肆

cool breeze of autumn

four-substance decoction (si wu tang), tonic formula used in Chinese medicine

Si Wenming, personal name of Yu the Great 大禹

Zuo Si (3rd century), Jin dynasty writer and poet

yin si juan, steamed bun from Shandong province with hand-drawn dough threads folded over