four

Four horizontal strokes, representing the number four.

Evolution

亖 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
亖 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
亖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
亖 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

four; old variant of [sì]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+4E96

Shuowen

“四,陰數也。象四分之形。,古文四。亖,籀文四。”


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