四三の星

しそうのほし

the plow

三四日

さんよっか

three or four days

六三三四制

ろくさんさんよんせい

six-three-three-four system of education (six years of elementary school, three years each of junior and senior high school and four years of university)

三寒四温

さんかんしおん

alternation of three cold and four warm days

朝三暮四

ちょうさんぼし

being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance

再三再四

さいさんさいし

repeatedly

張三李四

ちょうさんりし

the common run of men, the average Joe, good-for-nothing (person)

秩父三十四所

ちちぶさんじゅうよんしょ

thirty-four (orig. thirty-three) sacred places in and around Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture

四

し よん よ スー

four

四百四病

しひゃくしびょう

every type of disease

四角四面

しかくしめん

square, formal

一眼二足三胆四力

いちがんにそくさんたんしりき

firstly vision, secondly footwork, thirdly courage, fourthly technique (the most important aspects of kendo)

四百

よんひゃく

four hundred

単四

たんよん

size AAA (battery)

四月

しがつ

April

四辺

しへん し へん

four-sided

四衆

ししゅ ししゅう

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

四顧

しこ

look everywhere

四手

しで かみしで よんて

zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects