四 in English

Measure word

• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
• 段 duàn paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc attested in use

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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 一，二，三，四，五。

  One, two, three, four, five.

• 一、二、三、四、五、六、七、八、九、十。

  One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

• 一天有二十四个小时。

  A day has twenty-four hours.

• 一年四季，我最喜欢夏天，你呢？

  There are four seasons in a year, and the one I like most is summer. How about you?

• 一日四次，餐后服用。

  Take one four times a day, after meals.

• 不，謝謝你。我只是四處看看。

  No, thank you. I'm just looking around.

• 中国政府控制了网络，以免让人民知道六四事件的真相。

  The Chinese government controlled the internet to prevent the people from knowing the truth of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

• 中文是有四声的语言。

  Chinese is a language that has four tones.

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