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four / 4
HSK 1
all around
HSK 5
all over the place / everywhere and all directions
HSK 6
courtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence)
HSK 7-9
four seasons, namely: spring , summer , autumn and winter
HSK 7-9
(idiom) all directions; all around
HSK 7-9
(archaic) the four rivers (Yangtze 長江|长江, Yellow 黃河|黄河, Huai 淮河, Ji 濟水|济水) / (TCM) acupuncture point SJ-9
forty / 40
the Four Noble Truths (Buddhism) / see also 四諦|四谛 and 苦集滅道|苦集灭道
(bird species of China) Sichuan wood owl (Strix davidi)
(idiom) the whole world is at peace
see 方帽
Shikoku (one of the four main islands of Japan)
the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放|大鸣大放, 大辯論|大辩论, 大字報|大字报 (PRC)
lit. the four elements are vanity (idiom) / this world is an illusion
all the borders
Four Sacred Mountains of Buddhism, namely: Mt Wutai 五臺山|五台山 in Shanxi, Mt Emei 峨眉山 in Sichuan, Mt Jiuhua 九華山|九华山 in Anhui, Mt Potala 普陀山 in Zhejiang
crotchet (music)
four-way / four-sided / in all directions / everywhere
April / fourth month (of the lunar year)
four seasons like spring / favorable climate throughout the year
Sixian dialect of Hakka Chinese
all men are brothers
everything steady and stable (idiom); overcautious and unimaginary
Sichuan Province, capital Chengdu 成都市 (abbr. to or )
one's four limbs / two arms and two legs
(fig.) the whole world
the four corners (of a rectangle) / the eaves that the four corners of a building
Sichuan basin
Siku Quanshu (collection of books compiled during Qing dynasty)
quartet (musical ensemble)
(math.) to round up or down / to round off
Four Asian Tigers / East Asian Tigers / Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong)
the four social bonds: propriety, justice, integrity and honor / see 禮義廉恥|礼义廉耻 / the four directions / the four limbs (Chinese medicine) / four-dimensional
to spring up everywhere / from all around
all sides
all around
"the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants
the four heavenly kings (Sanskrit vajra) / the four guardians or warrior attendants of Buddha
the four seasons, namely: spring , summer , autumn and winter
to disperse / to scatter in all directions
four corner code (input method for Chinese characters)
lit. four ounces can move a thousand catties (idiom) / fig. to achieve much with little effort
the four tones of Middle Chinese: level tone 平聲|平声, rising tone 上聲|上声, departing tone 去聲|去声 and entering tone 入聲|入声 / the four tones of Modern Standard Mandarin
one's nearest neighbors
the four book depositories, namely: classics 經|经, history , philosophy , belles-lettres
to look around
quadriceps muscle group / thigh muscles
the four basic operations of arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
Siping, prefecture-level city in Jilin Province 吉林省
four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿 of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙, White Tiger 白虎, Vermilion Bird 朱雀, Black Tortoise 玄武
the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), covered by the acronym 苦集滅道|苦集灭道: all life is suffering , the cause of suffering is desire , emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭, the way to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道
Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋|张春桥, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution
Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍
four generations under one roof (idiom)
chariot
(TCM) the four methods of diagnosis, namely 望診|望诊 (observation), 聞診|闻诊 (auscultation and olfaction), 問診|问诊 (interrogation), 切診|切诊 (pulse feeling and palpation)
tetrahedron
the four limbs of the body
lizard
four legs facing the sky (idiom); flat on one's back
four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality , physical charm , propriety in speech and efficiency in needlework
the Four Olds (target of the Cultural Revolution)
to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own
Siziwang banner or Dörvön-xüüxed khoshuu in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布|乌兰察布, Inner Mongolia
one-quarter
(idiom) fragmented; scattered; in disarray; at sixes and sevens
square-jawed face
a slow march
lit. on all sides, the songs of Chu (idiom) / fig. surrounded by enemies, isolated and without help
four of a kind / quads (poker)
Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)
four-eyes (facetious term for a person who wears glasses)
Four Books, namely: the Great Learning 大學|大学, the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, the Analects of Confucius 論語|论语, and Mencius 孟子
Sihui, a county-level city in Zhaoqing City 肇慶市|肇庆市, Guangdong
common name for 麋鹿, Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), which is said to resemble an amalgam of animals such as a cow, deer, donkey and horse / an odd mixture of disparate elements / hodgepodge / farrago
the four legendary beauties of ancient China, namely: Xishi 西施, Wang Zhaojun 王昭君, Diaochan 貂蟬|貂蝉 and Yang Yuhuan 楊玉環|杨玉环
Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology / abbr. to 四化
green bean / French bean / runner bean
nearby
abbr. for 四個現代化|四个现代化, Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations
(idiom) sprawled out on one's back
nearby regions
"the four pests", i.e. rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows / see also 打麻雀運動|打麻雀运动
suburb / outskirts (of town)
carbon tetrachloride
the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66) / abbr. for 四清運動|四清运动
sihu (or "khuurchir" in Mongolian), a bowed instrument with four strings, primarily associated with Mongolian and Chinese culture
Yokkaichi, city in Mie Prefecture, Japan
wheel alignment (automobile maintenance)
four-substance decoction (si wu tang), tonic formula used in Chinese medicine
tetrachloroethylene
four-wheel drive
semifinals
fourth / four times / quartic
to radiate all around
Sihu (or Ssuhu) township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan

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