(n) (1) four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
(2) four monastic communities (ordained monks, ordained nuns, male novices and female novices)
(3) (in Tendai) the four assemblies
(n) forty
(n) forty
(n) forty
(P)
(n) (1) four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear)
(2) four gods said to rule over the four directions
(n,adj-no) fourfold
(n) the Four Books (Confucian texts)
(n) fourth-born daughter
(n) four images
four symbols
four emblems
four phenomena
four phases
(n) (1) four gods said to rule over the four directions
(2) (in China) four gods said to rule over the four seasons
(n) four people
(n) four people
(n) four people
(n) (1) the four great families of the age (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)
(2) varna (each of the four Hindu castes)
(n) the four great sages (Buddha, Christ, Confucius, Socrates)
(n) four tones (of Chinese)
(n) four thousand
(P)
(n) Sichuan (China)
Szechuan
Szechwan
(n) four (fundamental) rules of arithmetic
(n) fourth son
(n) The Four Noble Truths (of Buddhism)
(n) (1) fourth day of month
(2) four days
(P)
(n) four hundred
(P)
(n,vs) divide into four pieces
one fourth
(n) four-sided
(n) every direction
(P)
(n) every direction
(n) four tassels hung above the sumo ring
(adj-f) four (long cylindrical things)
(P)
(n) the four social classes (samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants)
the masses