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| Entry |
Reading |
English |
Rank |
| 四 |
し |
(num) four |
313 |
| 四 |
よん |
(num) four |
313 |
| 川 |
かわ |
(n) river |
442 |
| 河川 |
かせん |
(n) rivers |
1480 |
| 四国 |
しこく |
(n) one of the four main islands of Japan |
1527 |
| 小川 |
おがわ |
(n) streamlet; brook |
2557 |
| 川口 |
かわぐち |
(n) mouth of a river |
3026 |
| 川上 |
かわかみ |
(n) upper reaches of a river |
3474 |
| 古川 |
ふるかわ |
(n) old river |
4418 |
| 山川 |
さんせん |
(n) mountains and rivers |
5187 |
| 山川 |
やまかわ |
(n) mountains and rivers |
5187 |
| 山川 |
やまがわ |
(n) mountain rivers |
5187 |
| 江戸川 |
えどがわ |
Edo River |
5409 |
| 淀川 |
よどがわ |
river in Osaka Prefecture |
5639 |
| 四球 |
しきゅう |
(n) four balls; base on balls (baseball); a walk |
5874 |
| 谷川 |
たにがわ |
(n) valley river |
6087 |
| 多摩川 |
たまがわ |
river running between Tokyo-to and Kanagawa Prefecture |
6157 |
| 滝川 |
たきがわ |
(n) rapids |
6394 |
| 四天王 |
してんのう |
(n) the Four Devas; the big four |
6870 |
| 四季 |
しき |
(n) four seasons |
7071 |
| 堀川 |
ほりかわ |
(n) canal |
7742 |
| 川辺 |
かわべ |
(n) riverside; edge of a river |
8000 |
| 四つ |
よっつ |
(n) four |
8005 |
| 川端 |
かわばた |
(n) riverbank |
8404 |
| 川原 |
かわはら |
(n) dry river bed; river beach |
9153 |
| 川原 |
かわら |
(n) dry river bed; river beach |
9153 |
| 四方 |
しほう |
(n) every direction |
9821 |
| 四方 |
よも |
(n) every direction |
9821 |
| 四死球 |
ししきゅう |
(n) four dead balls (baseball) |
10996 |
| 富士川 |
ふじかわ |
river in Shizuoka Prefecture |
11933 |
| 川尻 |
かわじり |
(n) mouth of a river; lower stream |
12177 |
| 四股 |
しこ |
(n) sumo wrestler ceremonial leg raising and stomping |
12315 |
| 川柳 |
かわやなぎ |
(n) purple willow |
12566 |
| 川柳 |
せんりゅう |
(n) comic haiku |
12566 |
| 四肢 |
しし |
(n) limbs; extremities |
13525 |
| 川瀬 |
かわせ |
(n) rapids; shallows of a river |
14231 |
| 河川敷 |
かせんしき |
(n) (dry) riverbed |
14379 |
| 河川敷 |
かせんじき |
(n) (dry) riverbed |
14379 |
| 四月 |
しがつ |
(n-adv) April |
14587 |
| 四川 |
しせん |
Szechwan |
14938 |
| 四角 |
しかく |
(adj-na,n) square |
16133 |
| 四角形 |
しかくけい |
(n) square; quadrilateral; quadrangle |
16365 |
| 四角形 |
しかっけい |
(ik) (n) square; quadrilateral; quadrangle |
16365 |
| 四角い |
しかくい |
(adj) square |
16839 |
| 天の川 |
あまのかわ |
(n) Milky Way |
17176 |
| 天の川 |
あまのがわ |
(n) Milky Way |
17176 |
| 川下 |
かわしも |
(n) downstream |
17389 |
| 川岸 |
かわぎし |
(n) river bank |
17564 |
| アマゾン川 |
アマゾンがわ |
(n) Amazon River |
19310 |
| 川路 |
かわじ |
river's course |
20588 |
| 四隅 |
よすみ |
(n) four corners |
20897 |
| 四書 |
ししょ |
(n) the four Chinese classics |
22165 |
| 四重奏 |
しじゅうそう |
(n) instrumental quartet |
23088 |
| 川底 |
かわぞこ |
(n) riverbed |
23134 |
| 四半期 |
しはんき |
(n) quarter (of a year) |
23295 |
| 川幅 |
かわはば |
(n) width of a river |
24699 |
| 四散 |
しさん |
(n,vs) scattering (in all directions) |
25286 |
| 四則 |
しそく |
(n) four (fundamental) rules of arithmetic |
26001 |
| 川面 |
かわづら |
(n) river surface |
26240 |
| 川面 |
かわも |
(n) river surface |
26240 |
| 四畳半 |
よじょうはん |
(n) 4 1; 2 Tatami mats |
26494 |
| 四半世紀 |
しはんせいき |
(n) quarter of a century |
26730 |
| 四声 |
しせい |
(n) four tones (of Chinese) |
26893 |
| 平行四辺形 |
へいこうしへんけい |
(n) parallelogram |
27617 |
| 川筋 |
かわすじ |
(n) course of a river; land along a river |
28567 |
| 四捨五入 |
ししゃごにゅう |
(n) rounding up (fractions) |
29086 |
| 四聖 |
しせい |
(n) the four great sages (Buddha, Christ, Confucius, Socrates) |
29190 |
| 三途の川 |
さんずのかわ |
(n) the River Styx |
30688 |
| 川床 |
かわどこ |
(n) riverbed |
31088 |
| 四面 |
しめん |
(n) four sides; all sides |
31368 |
| 四男 |
よんなん |
(n) fourth son |
31930 |
| 四方八方 |
しほうはっぽう |
(n) in all directions |
31930 |
| 四海 |
しかい |
(n) the whole world; the seven seas |
32216 |
| 四苦八苦 |
しくはっく |
(n,vs,exp) be in dire distress; hard put to it |
32501 |
| 四面楚歌 |
しめんそか |
(n) be surrounded by enemies on all sides; be betrayed (forsaken) by everybody |
34580 |
| 川流れ |
かわながれ |
(n) being carried away by a current |
35139 |
| 四つ角 |
よつかど |
(n) four corners; crossroads |
35357 |
| 四辺 |
しへん |
(n) 4-sided |
35357 |
| 四民 |
しみん |
(n) the four social classes (samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants); the masses |
35577 |
| 四つ相撲 |
よつずもう |
(n) sumo wrestling in which both wrestlers grasp the other's belt with both hands |
36396 |
| 川船 |
かわぶね |
(n) riverboat; rivercraft |
37130 |
| 四日 |
よっか |
(n) (1) 4th day of month; (2) four days |
37405 |
| 四つん這い |
よっつんばい |
(n) (crawl) on all fours; on one's hands and feet; falling flat |
37706 |
| 四つん這い |
よつんばい |
(n) (crawl) on all fours; on one's hands and feet; falling flat |
37706 |
| 四拍子 |
しびょうし |
(n) quadruple time |
38001 |
| 四拍子 |
よんびょうし |
(n) quadruple time |
38001 |
| 四六時中 |
しろくじちゅう |
(adv,n) around the clock; day and night (Note: 4 x 6 = 24) |
38001 |
| 川遊び |
かわあそび |
(n) boating or swimming in a river |
38280 |
| 四分五裂 |
しぶごれつ |
(n) torn asunder; disruption |
38588 |
| 四分五裂 |
しぶんごれつ |
(n) torn asunder; disruption |
38588 |
| 川開き |
かわびらき |
(n) festival marking the start of boating season |
38888 |
| 四姓 |
しせい |
(n) the four castes (of India) |
39571 |
| 四つんばい |
よっつんばい |
(n) (crawl) on all fours; on one's hands and feet; falling flat |
41039 |
| 四つんばい |
よつんばい |
(n) (crawl) on all fours; on one's hands and feet; falling flat |
41039 |
| 四十八手 |
しじゅうはって |
(exp,n) the 48 basic sumo techniques; every trick in the book |
41039 |
| 四十八手 |
よんじゅうはって |
(exp,n) the 48 basic sumo techniques; every trick in the book |
41039 |
| 四重唱 |
しじゅうしょう |
(n) vocal quartet; four-part chorus |
41039 |
| 川越し |
かわごし |
(n) crossing a river |
41444 |
| 四季咲き |
しきざき |
(n) blooming in each season |
42893 |
| 真四角 |
ましかく |
(adj-na,n) square |
42893 |
| 四角四面 |
しかくしめん |
(adj-na,n) square; formal |
43447 |
| 四十路 |
よそじ |
(n) forty (years of age) |
43447 |
| 川止め |
かわどめ |
(n) suspension of ferry service |
43447 |
| 再三再四 |
さいさんさいし |
(adv,n) repeatedly |
44061 |
| 四つ辻 |
よつつじ |
(n) crossroads; intersection |
44061 |
| 四十雀 |
しじゅうから |
(n) chickadee |
44061 |
| 四方山話 |
よもやまばなし |
(n) talk about various topics |
44061 |
| 川獺 |
かわうそ |
(n) (uk) otter |
44061 |
| 溝川 |
どぶがわ |
(n) ditch with running water |
44709 |
| 四阿 |
あずまや |
(n) square gazebo; arbor |
44709 |
| 川縁 |
かわぶち |
(n) riverside |
44709 |
| 四囲 |
しい |
(n) surroundings; circumference |
46248 |
| 四手 |
しで |
(n) hornbeam (plant) |
46248 |
| 安倍川餅 |
あべかわもち |
(n) (uk) rice cakes (mochi) with Kinako |
47205 |
| 四角号碼 |
しかくごうま |
(n) a kanji character stroke classification system |
47205 |
| 四角張る |
しかくばる |
(v5r) to be angular; to be formal |
47205 |
| 四次元 |
しじげん |
(n) fourth dimension; four dimensions |
47205 |
| 四次元 |
よじげん |
(n) fourth dimension; four dimensions |
47205 |
| 四半分 |
しはんぶん |
(n) a fourth; quarter |
47205 |
| 三寒四温 |
さんかんしおん |
(n) alternation of three cold and four warm days |
48294 |
| 四六判 |
しろくばん |
(n) duodecimo |
48294 |
| 川蝉 |
かわせみ |
(n) kingfisher |
48294 |
| 天龍川 |
てんりゅうかわ |
river in Shizuoka Prefecture |
48294 |
| 四つ切り |
よつぎり |
(n) cutting into four; quarter; photograph size 254mm x 305 mm |
49657 |
| 四顧 |
しこ |
(n) look everywhere |
49657 |
| 四十九日 |
しじゅうくにち |
(n) forty-ninth day after a person's death |
49657 |
| 四隣 |
しりん |
(n) whole neighborhood; surrounding countries |
49657 |
| 十四 |
じゅうし |
14; fourteen |
49657 |
| 十四 |
じゅうよん |
14; fourteen |
49657 |
| 十四日 |
じゅうよっか |
fourteenth day of the month |
49657 |
| 朝三暮四 |
ちょうさんぼし |
(n) being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance |
49657 |
| まっ四角 |
まっしかく |
square |
51560 |
| ライン川 |
ラインがわ |
(river) Rhine |
51560 |
| 易の六十四卦 |
えきのろくじゅうしけ |
the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes |
51560 |
| 一天四海 |
いってんしかい |
the world; the universe |
51560 |
| 右四つ |
みぎよつ |
(n) sumo hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the right hand and an overarm grip with the left |
51560 |
| 下四半期 |
しもしはんき |
last quarter (of the year) |
51560 |
| 河川工学 |
かせんこうがく |
(n) river engineering |
51560 |
| 河川工事 |
かせんこうじ |
riparian works |
51560 |
| 河童の川流れ |
かっぱのかわながれ |
(n) Even Homer sometimes nods |
51560 |
| 河童も川流れ |
かっぱもかわながれ |
(exp) anyone can make a mistake |
51560 |
| 芥川龍之介 |
あくたがわりゅうのすけ |
Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (auth) |
51560 |
| 弦楽四重奏 |
げんがくしじゅうそう |
string quartet |
51560 |
| 弦楽四重奏曲 |
げんがくしじゅうそうきょく |
string quartet |
51560 |
| 弦楽四重奏団 |
げんがくしじゅうそうだん |
(n) string quartet |
51560 |
| 工工四 |
くんくんしい |
type of Ryuukyuu stringed instrument music |
51560 |
| 江川る |
えがわる |
(v5r) to (try to) act like a big-shot |
51560 |
| 香川県 |
かがわけん |
prefecture on the island of Shikoku |
51560 |
| 今川焼 |
いまがわやき |
(n) Japanese muffin containing bean jam, served hot |
51560 |
| 左四つ |
ひだりよつ |
(n) variety of sumo grip |
51560 |