Kana: よん

four

Example sentence

私の家族は四人です。

わたしのかぞくはよにんです。

My family has four people.

What 四 means

(よん) is a Japanese word meaning “four”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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