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four numeral—四 num (almost always used) ()四个 num ()Examples:war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters—lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war—twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions)—tetrose (CH20)4, monosaccharide with four carbon atoms—the eaves that the four corners of a building—Zhang Chunqiao (1917-2005), one of the Gang of Four—the four guardians or warrior attendants of Buddha—the “Four Clean-ups” Movement (1963-66), a nationwide movement clean things up in the fields of politics, economy, organization and ideology (historical)—tear off a person's four limbs and head using five horse drawn carts (as capital punishment)—four-square box in which one practices writing a Chinese character—four Han commanderies in north Korea 108 BC-c. 300 AD—the four social bonds: propriety, justice, integrity and honor—four-substance decoction (si wu tang), tonic formula used in Chinese medicine—the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century—Lelang commandery (108 BC-313 AD), one of four Han dynasty commanderies in north Korea—poetic form consisting of four lines of five syllables, with rhymes on first, second and fourth line—the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism)—"Legal Quotient (LQ)", standard reflecting a lawyer's legal ability based on the four tenets of legal knowledge, situational assessment, conduct and righteousness—Xuantu commandery (108 BC-c. 300 AD), one of four Han dynasty commanderies in north Korea—Destroy the Four Olds (campaign of the Cultural Revolution)—National Games, Chinese athletics competition, organized every four years since 1988—four legs facing the sky (idiom); flat on one's back—Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology—mixed number (i.e. with an integer part and a fraction part, e.g. four and three quarters)—sihu (or "khuurchir" in Mongolian), a bowed instrument with four strings, primarily associated with Mongolian and Chinese culture—lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. scrupulous attention detail—seven heavenly bodies and four imaginary stars (in astrology and fengshui)—four corner code (input method for Chinese characters)—Shikoku (one of the four main islands of Japan)—the Four Olds (target of the Cultural Revolution)—Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions Central Asian from 1870—Wang Hongwen (1935-1992), one of the Gang of Four—regard the four corners of the world all as home [idiom.]— |