Learning Japanese Kanji With Pictures Number Four

四

Meaning

Four

Kunyoumi

よ、 よ.つ、 よっ.つ、 よん

Onyoumi

シ

To draw a box you need 4 lines add 2 erasers in the middle and you have the kanji 四 (yon)! In the first version of oracle shell and bone, the character was written just like 一,二,三, where they’re literal representation of the number of the lines. However this later evolved to the combination of 口 (mouth) and 八 (divide) radicals.